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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.
HabitatFoliage in rural roadside vegetation.
Type LocalityPerak, Malaysia.
DistributionChina, Japan, Malaysia (Perak, Johor), Singapore, Vietnam.

Taxonomy

Type Depositories

  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(s)

    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

Distribution of Alcimochthes limbatus Simon, 1885

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

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