Tibellus oblongus, also called the oblong running spider or slender crab spider, is a spider with a Holarctic distribution. It does not spin webs, but instead actively hunts small insects, which it kills with venom.[1] T. oblongus lives in grassy habitats and can be preyed upon by larger spiders, such as wolf spiders like Hogna baltimoriana.[2]

Tibellus oblongus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Tibellus
Species:
T. oblongus
Binomial name
Tibellus oblongus
(Walckenaer, 1802)
Subspecies

Tibellus oblongus maculatus Caporiacco, 1950 — Italy

Synonyms
  • Aranea oblonga Walckenaer, 1802
  • Tibellus punctatus Hull, 1955
  • Tibellus longicephalus Utochkin, 1981
  • Tibellus lineatus Utochkin, 1981

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References

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  1. ^ Korolkova, Yuliya; Maleeva, Ekaterina; Mikov, Alexander; Lobas, Anna; Solovyeva, Elizaveta; Gorshkov, Mikhail; Andreev, Yaroslav; Peigneur, Steve; Tytgat, Jan; Kornilov, Fedor; Lushpa, Vladislav; Mineev, Konstantin; Kozlov, Sergey (4 January 2021). "New Insectotoxin from Tibellus Oblongus Spider Venom Presents Novel Adaptation of ICK Fold". Toxins. 13 (1): 29. doi:10.3390/toxins13010029. ISSN 2072-6651. PMC 7824768. PMID 33406803.
  2. ^ Shogren, Fiona G; Hebets, Eileen A; DeLong, John P (2023-05-14). Pinter-Wollman, Noa (ed.). "Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior". Behavioral Ecology. 34 (3): 334–339. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac130. ISSN 1045-2249.