Thomisidae, Sundevall, 1833

Grbić, Gordana, Hänggi, Ambros & Krnjajić, Slobodan, 2021, Spiders (Araneae) Of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): Additional Arguments In Environmental Protection, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (1), pp. 15-61 : 37

Family Thomisidae

Bassaniodes robustus (Hahn, 1832)

Material: 13.6.2014 M1 1f; 27.6.2014 M1 3mm; 16.7.2014 M1 4mm; 30.7.2014 M2 1f; 13.6.2014 M3 1m; 27.6.2014 M3 3ff; 16.7.2014 M3 7mm; 30.7.2014 M3 1m 2ff; 16.7.2014 W4 1 m; 30.7.2014 W4 2 mm.

Determination: TULLGREN 1944, MILLER 1971, ROBERTS 1985.

Global distribution: Palaearctic.

Habitat: Xerothermic habitats, under stones, in short grass and moss, from lowlands up to the subalpine region.

Note: Based on barcode phylogenetic research, this species was recently transferred from Xysticus to Bassaniodes by BREITLING (2019). According to NENTWIG et al. (2020), this species is not frequent. It is noted in the Red lists as endangered ( England) and vulnerable ( Czech Republic), but not so (LC) in Sweden and Germany.