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Thomisidae Runcinia

Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)

Round-tailed Runcinia

This species is distinguished from the R. acuminata by its posteriorly rounded abdomen. The female is easily recognised by the presence of a median, longitudinal, and white line over the carapace.

Length♀ 4–6 mm; ♂ 3 mm.
HabitatGrasses and shrubs in vacant land, often hiding within a shelter made of a banded blade of grass secured by silk on the sides
Type LocalityQueensland, Australia.
DistributionWidespread, including Africa, Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand.

Taxonomy

Type Depositories

  1. Syntype(s)

    Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Runcinia albostriata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906, 2 ♀, 1 ♂ (subadult) (4365-128)

  2. Syntype(s)

    Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); ♂ (A0000807) of Diaea insecta L. Koch, 1875

Taxonomic references

  1. Diaea insecta (Original description ♂)

    L. Koch, 1875a Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 12-16]: 579, pl. 45, f. 1 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660

  2. Runcinia affinis (Original description ♀; N.B.: may be a junior Synonym of R. spinulosa, per Marusik, 1993b: 465 and Lehtinen, 2004

    Simon, 1897i Arachnides recueillis par M: 292

  3. Runcinia annamita (Original description ♀)

    Simon, 1903g Etudes arachnologiques: 728

  4. Runcinia albostriata (Original description ♂♀)

    Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 Japanische Spinnen: 252, pl. 10, f. 162

  5. Plancinus advecticius (Original description ♀)

    Simon, 1909e Etude sur les arachnides du Tonkin (1re partie): 140

  6. Runcinia cataracta (Original description ♀)

    Lawrence, 1927 Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V: 36, pl. 1, f. 23

  7. Thomisus cherapunjeus (Original description ♀)

    Tikader, 1966g Studies on some crab-spider (family: Thomisidae) from Khasi and Jaintia hills, Assam, India: 53, f. 1a-b

  8. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Tikader, 1968b Studies on spider fauna of Khasi and Jaintia hills, Assam, India: 104, f. 13-14

  9. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Tikader, 1971a Revision of Indian crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae): 24, f. 8K-L

  10. Runcinia chauhani (Original description ♀)

    Sen & Basu, 1973 A new spider of the genus Runcinia Simon, 1875 (Thomisidae: Archanida [sic], from India: 103, f. 1A-B

  11. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Song, 1980 [Farm Spiders]: 196, f. 110a-e

  12. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Tikader, 1980a Thomisidae (Crab-spiders): 54, f. 82-83

  13. Runcinia affinis (♂♀, Synonym of Runcinia cataracta)

    Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1980a The crab-spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae): 317, f. 38-42

  14. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Wang, 1981 [Protection and utilization of spiders in paddy fields]: 127, f. 68A-C

  15. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 78, f. 139-140

  16. Runcinia affinis (♂♀)

    Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983 The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa: 46, f. 28a-c

  17. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Guo, 1985 [Farm spiders from Shaanxi Province]: 167, f. 2-94.1-3

  18. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Yaginuma, 1986a Spiders of Japan in color (new ed: 210, f. 116.4

  19. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Song, 1987 Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae): 267, f. 223

  20. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Zhang, 1987 [Farm spiders from Hebei Province]: 219, f. 191.1-3

  21. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Ono, 1988c A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Japan: 186, f. 187-192

  22. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Feng, 1990 Spiders of China in colour: 184, f. 159.1-3

  23. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Chen & Gao, 1990 The Sichuan farmland spiders in China: 170, f. 216a-b

  24. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 266, f. 278.1-4

  25. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Zhao, 1993 Spiders in the cotton fields in China: 371, f. 182a-b

  26. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Okuma et al., 1993 Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh): 65, f. 55

  27. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Barrion & Litsinger, 1994 Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators: 291, f. 1469-1470

  28. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 224, f. 128a-e, 129a-e

  29. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Zhao, 1995 Araneida: 1088, f. 523a-b

  30. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Song & Zhu, 1997 Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae: 161, f. 113A-F

  31. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 485, f. 275I, 281H

  32. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Kim & Gwon, 2001 A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea: 41, f. 58-63

  33. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Sunil Jose & Sebastian, 2001b New report on some crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Kerala, India: 184, f. 2A-B

  34. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2002 The spiders of Korea: 540, f. 42.23a-b

  35. Runcinia albostriata (♀)

    Kim & Cho, 2002 Spider: Natural Enemy & Resources: 155, f. 295-300

  36. Runcinia albostriata (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 543, f. 42.23a-b

  37. Runcinia affinis (Synonym of Plancinus advecticius, Runcinia albostriata, R. annamita, R. chauhani, R. sangasanga and Thomisus cherapunjea)

    Lehtinen, 2004 Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions: 175

  38. Runcinia affinis (♂♀)

    Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004 Rice-feeding insects and selected natural enemies in West Africa: biology, ecology, identification: 214, f. 634-636

  39. Thomisus cherapunjeus (♀)

    Gajbe, 2007 Araneae: Arachnida: 440, f. 40-41

  40. Runcinia affinis (♂♀)

    Ono, 2009a The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species: 528, f. 311-315

  41. Runcinia affinis (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1293, f. 696a-e

  42. Runcinia affinis (♂♀)

    Kim & Lee, 2012a Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae: 40, f. 16A-E

  43. Runcinia insecta (mf, Transferred from Diaea, Synonym of Runcinia affinis)

    Szymkowiak, 2014 Revision of Australian species of the genus Diaea (Araneae: Thomisidae) with redefinition of their taxonomic status: 450, f. 71A-D, 72A-B doi:10.3161/000345414X684795

  44. Runcinia insecta (♀)

    Caleb, 2020b Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India: 15748, f. 23C-F, 31B doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766

  45. Runcinia insecta (♂♀)

    Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020v The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 2 My-R: 58, 58: 4 f., 59: 2 f. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513276

  46. Thomisus cherapunjius (♂♀, lapsus)

    Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2024 Taxonomic account of some crab-spiders genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Misumeninae: Thomisidae) from Bangladesh: 167, f. 2a-f, 3b doi:10.59619/ej.5.2.9

Distribution of Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)

Widespread, including Africa, Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand.

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