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Thomisidae Alcimochthes

Alcimochthes limbatus Simon, 1885

Common Tall-faced Crab Spider

A. limbatus females are highly variable in external appearance. The dorsum may have a purplish brown shield-like or V-shaped pattern. In some females, the shield-like pattern may be less sharply defined and less purplish in colouration. The lateral eye tubercles, in white, show up clearly against a carapace that is translucent green.

The male carapace is blackish brown with a pair of brown irregular bands extending posteriorly from the lateral eye tubercles. The abdomen has a pair of darkly coloured rings.

Like the carapace, the chelicerae are also coloured differently in both sexes: black in the male and green in female.

Length♀ 4 mm; ♂ 3 mm
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Johor, Perak), Vietnam, China, Japan.
HabitatFoliage in rural roadside vegetation.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    College of Environment and Plant Protection, Hainan University (HANU), Haikou, China; ♂ of Tmarus shuquianglii (Barrion et al., 2013)

  2. Holotype

    Department of Ecology, University of Hong Kong, China; ♀ of Lysiteles hongkong (Lin, 2024)

  3. Paratype

    Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 2♂ 1♀ (7856) (Ileperuma Arachchi & Benjamin, 2019b)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Alcimochthes limbatus (Original description ♂♀)

    Simon, 1886c Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale: 448, pl. 10, f. 16

  2. Alcimochthes limbatus

    Simon, 1895a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier: 979, f doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973

  3. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀)

    Ono, 1988c A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Japan: 46, f. 34-45

  4. Alcimochthes limbatus (♀)

    Song & Chai, 1990 Notes of some species of the family Thomisidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Wuling Shan area: 366, f. 3A-C

  5. Alcimochthes limbatus (♀)

    Song & Li, 1997 Spiders of Wuling Mountains area: 421, f. 26A-C

  6. Alcimochthes limbatus (♀)

    Song & Zhu, 1997 Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae: 34, f. 16A-C

  7. Lysiteles hongkong (Original description ♀)

    Song, Zhu & Wu, 1997 Some new species of the spiders from Hong Kong: 82, f. 3A-B

  8. Lysiteles hongkong (♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 481, f. 278B

  9. Lysiteles guangxiensis (Original description ♂)

    He & Hu, 1999c A new species of the genus Lysiteles from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (Araneae: Thomisidae): 8, f. 1-3

  10. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀)

    Zhang et al., 2000 The spiders of family Thomisidae in Ningbo Tiantong Forest Park: 36, f. 2A-D

  11. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀)

    Ono, 2009a The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species: 506, f. 82-87

  12. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀, Synonym of Lysiteles guangxiensis)

    Tang & Li, 2010a Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae): 5, f. 1A-D, 2A-C doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1

  13. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1273, f. 684a-f

  14. Tmarus shuquianglii (Original description ♂)

    Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, in Barrion et al., 2013 New species of spiders (Araneae) from Hainan Island, China: 42, f. 48A-E doi:10.5281/zenodo.269136

  15. Alcimochthes limbatus (♂♀)

    Ileperuma Arachchi & Benjamin, 2019b The crab spider genus Tarrocanus Simon, 1895 with notes on the genera Alcimochthes Simon, 1895 and Domatha Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae): 590, f. 14-15 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.10

  16. Alcimochthes limbatus (♀)

    Rio & Matsumoto, 2020 [Spiders collected on Yonaguni Island]: 85, f. 3-4

  17. Alcimochthes limbatus (year of description corrected)

    Frétey, 2023 The publication dates of the printed issues of the Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France (1876–2015): 124 doi:10.11646/bionomina.33.1.1

  18. Alcimochthes limbatus (Synonym of Tmarus shuquianglii)

    Lin et al., 2023a Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae): 524 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.1

  19. Alcimochthes limbatus (Synonym of Lysiteles hongkong)

    Lin, 2024 Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China: 45 doi:10.70590/ice.2024.01.06

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Alcimochthes limbatus Simon, 1885

Singapore, Malaysia (Johor, Perak), Vietnam, China, Japan.

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