Xysticus sicus Fox, 1937

Marusik, Yuri M. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2014, Reconsideration of Xysticus species described by Ehrenfried Schenkel from Mongolia and China in 1963 (Araneae: Thomisidae), Zootaxa 3861 (3), pp. 275-289 : 286

Xysticus sicus Fox, 1937

Fig. 1

X. szetschuanensis Schenkel, 1963: 216 , figs 122a–b (♀).

X. sicus Fox. Tang & Song 1988: 139 (synonymisation); Song & Zhu 1997: 105, figs 70A–B (♀); Di & Zhu 2008: 16, figs 1–5 (♂♀).

For the complete list of references see Platnick (2014).

Type material. Holotype ♀ [not examined] with text data “Pin. - Fag.-Region von Kony Tschiu, Szetschuan, 1908”. Data in introduction: “Cn 1—Kony-tscheu, Pinus-Fagus Region, Szetschuan, P. Cavelerie, 1908 u. 1913”.

Comments. Since the original description and until recently, this species was known only from female specimens. It has been mentioned in 11 taxonomic publications. Xysticus sicus is known from Tibet, Sichuan (type locality), Qinghai, Shaanxi ( China), Korea and Maritime Province of Russia ( Song et al. 1999; Marusik & Koponen 2000; Platnick 2014).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Type localities of 16 Xysticus species described by Schenkel in 1963 and of X. courti sp. n. Numbers in squares for X. bonneti refer to numbers in square brackets in the list of localities.