Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 301-336 : 318-319

Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870

Thanatus vulgaris ; Simon 1899: 85; Strand 1907: 135; Denis 1937b: 1048; Alioua et al. 2016: 37; Boucherit et al. 2020: 63; Alioua et al. 2022: 167.

Material examined: BERRIANE: Balouh, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 4.II.2021; 1 ♀, 6.II.2021; 1 ♀, 19.II.2021; 1 ♀, 5.III.2021; 1 ♂, 3.IV.2021; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, 10.IV.2021; 1 ♀, 24.IV.2021; 1 ♀, 30.IV.2021; Pifall traps, 1 ♂, 10.IV.2021, 1 ♀, 24.IV.2021. Sidi Mbarek, hand collecting,; 1 ♀, 6.II.2021; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 11.II.2021; 1 ♂, 4.III.2021; 1 ♀, 9.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 23.IV.2021; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, 29.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 11.II.2021; 1 ♂, 18.II.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 25.II.2021; 1 ♂, 4.III.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 18.III.2021; 2 ♀, 2.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 16.IV.2021; 1 ♀, 23.IV.2021; 2 ♂, 29.IV.2021. DHAYET BENDHAHOUA: Grazil, hand collecting, 2 ♂, 5.XII.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 5.I.2022; 1 ♀, 15.III.2022, pitfall traps, 1 ♀, 15.III.2022, Oumdjer, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 5.II.2022; 1 ♀, 15.III.2022; 2 ♀, 25.III.2022. EL ATTEUF: Palm grove of El Atteuf, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 20.II.2014; 1 ♂, 15.XII.2015; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 5.I.2015; 1 ♂, 15.I.2015; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, 16.II.2015; 2 ♀, 25.II.2015, 3 ♀, 6.III.2015; 2 ♂, 7 ♀, 15.III.2015; 8 ♂, 10 ♀, 25.III.2015; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, 5.IV.2015; 1 ♂, 25.II.2023; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 25.III.2023; 1 ♀, 15.IV.2023, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 16.II.2015, 1 ♂, 25.II.2015; 4 ♂, 1 ♀, 6.III.2015; 10 ♂, 3 ♀, 15.III.2015; 8 ♂, 2 ♀, 25.III.2015; 19 ♂, 2 ♀, 5.IV.2015; 3 ♂, 18.IV.2015. 1 ♀, 5.II.2023. EL GUERRARA: Aghzou, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 31.I.2020, 1 ♀, 15.II.2020; 1 ♂, 3.III.2020; 1 ♂, 11.III.2020, pitfall traps, 2 ♂, 8.II.2020; 2 ♂, 22.II.2020; 3 ♂, 3.III.2020; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, 17.III.2020. El Amied, hand collecting, 3 ♀, 15.II.2020, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 22.II.2020. MANSOURA: Mansoura Kedima, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 8.XII.2014. METLILI: Guemgouma, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 5.III.2022.

Previous records in Algeria: Aïn Defla, Alger, El Meniaâ, Laghouat, Mila, Naâma ( Simon 1899, Strand 1907, Denis 1937b, Alioua et al. 2016, Boucherit et al. 2020, Alioua et al. 2022).

Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Middle East, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to North America, South Africa, Australia ( World Spider Catalog 2024).