Tibellus
Encyclopedia
Tibellus is a genus of slender crab spiders described by Simon in 1875, belonging to the order Araneae
, family Philodromidae. Species of this genus are present in Eurasia
, Africa
, Americas
and Australia
.
organism) on low vegetation, foliage or herbaceous plants, where they actively pursue their preys, as they do not make webs. This genus, which includes active hunters, was once considered a subfamily within the sedentary 'crab spiders' (Thomisidae species).
The basic color of the body is light brown or pale yellow. It is elongate and slender (hence the common name), the carapace (prosoma) and the cylindrical abdomen (opisthosoma
) show a large brown stripe in the midline of the back. The long and thin legs are more or less equal in length and they usually are stretched out along grass stems or leaves, the first two pairs forwardly directed.
They generally have eight black equal-sized eyes in two horizontal rows of four each, with posterior median ones close to each other.
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
, family Philodromidae. Species of this genus are present in Eurasia
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Description
Adult members of this genus can reach 4–15 mm (0.15748031496063–0.590551181102362 ) of length and can mostly be encountered above the soil surface (epigealEpigeal
Epigeal, epigean, epigeic and epigeous are biological terms describing an organism's activity above the soil surface.In botany, a seed is described as epigeal when the cotyledons of the germinating seed expand, throw off the seed shell and become photosynthetic above the ground...
organism) on low vegetation, foliage or herbaceous plants, where they actively pursue their preys, as they do not make webs. This genus, which includes active hunters, was once considered a subfamily within the sedentary 'crab spiders' (Thomisidae species).
The basic color of the body is light brown or pale yellow. It is elongate and slender (hence the common name), the carapace (prosoma) and the cylindrical abdomen (opisthosoma
Opisthosoma
The opisthosoma is the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, behind the prosoma . It is a distinctive feature of the subphylum Chelicerata...
) show a large brown stripe in the midline of the back. The long and thin legs are more or less equal in length and they usually are stretched out along grass stems or leaves, the first two pairs forwardly directed.
They generally have eight black equal-sized eyes in two horizontal rows of four each, with posterior median ones close to each other.
Species list
- Tibellus affinis O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 — Mexico
- Tibellus armatus Lessert, 1928 — Central, Southern Africa
- Tibellus asiaticus Kulczynski, 1908 — Russia, North America
- Tibellus aspersus Danilov, 1991 — Russia
- Tibellus australis (Simon, 1910) — Botswana
- Tibellus bruneitarsis Lawrence, 1952 — Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Tibellus californicus Schick, 1965 — USA
- Tibellus chamberlini Gertsch, 1933 — USA, Canada
- Tibellus chaturshingi Tikader, 1962 — India
- Tibellus chilensis Mello-Leitão, 1943 — Chile
- Tibellus cobusi Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — East, Southern Africa
- Tibellus cucurbitus Yang, Zhu & Song, 2005 — China
- Tibellus demangei Jézéquel, 1964 — Ivory Coast, South Africa
- Tibellus duttoni (Hentz, 1847) — USA, Mexico
- Tibellus elongatus Tikader, 1960 — India
- Tibellus fengi Efimik, 1999 — Russia, China, Japan
- Tibellus flavipes Caporiacco, 1939 — East, Southern Africa
- Tibellus gerhardi Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — East, Southern Africa
- Tibellus hollidayi Lawrence, 1952 — East, Southern Africa
- Tibellus insularis Gertsch, 1933 — Cuba
- Tibellus jabalpurensis Gajbe & Gajbe, 1999 — India
- Tibellus japonicus Efimik, 1999 — Russia, China, Japan
- Tibellus katrajghatus Tikader, 1962 — India
- Tibellus kibonotensis Lessert, 1919 — East, Southern Africa
- Tibellus macellus Simon, 1875 — Europe to Central Asia
- Tibellus macellus georgicus Mcheidze, 1997 — Georgia
- Tibellus maritimus (Menge, 1875) — Holarctic
- Tibellus minor Lessert, 1919 — Africa
- Tibellus nigeriensis Millot, 1942 — Sudan
- Tibellus nimbaensis Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — Guinea-Bissau
- Tibellus oblongus (Walckenaer, 1802) — Holarctic
- Tibellus oblongus maculatus Caporiacco, 1950 — Italy
- Tibellus orientis Efimik, 1999 — Russia, China
- Tibellus paraguensis Simon, 1897 — Paraguay, Argentina
- Tibellus parallelus (C. L. Koch, 1837) — Palearctic
- Tibellus pashanensis Tikader, 1980 — India
- Tibellus pateli Tikader, 1980 — India
- Tibellus poonaensis Tikader, 1962 — India
- Tibellus propositus Roewer, 1951 — Yarkand
- Tibellus rothi Schick, 1965 — USA
- Tibellus septempunctatus Millot, 1942 — Guinea
- Tibellus seriepunctatus Simon, 1907 — Africa
- Tibellus shikerpurensis Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2003 — Bangladesh
- Tibellus somaliensis Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — Somalia, Zimbabwe
- Tibellus spinosus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1941 — Argentina
- Tibellus sunetae Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — Southern Africa
- Tibellus tenellus (L. Koch, 1876) — Russia, China to Australia
- Tibellus utotchkini Ponomarev, 2008 — Russia
- Tibellus vitilis Simon, 1906 — India, Sri Lanka
- Tibellus vosseleri Strand, 1906 — Algeria
- Tibellus vossioni Simon, 1884 — Africa
- Tibellus zhui Tang & Song, 1989 — China