''Ozyptila atomaria'' is a species of

crab spider The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of thi ...

with

palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

distribution. It is very common on moist meadows of central

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

. Females reach up to 6 mm, males grow up to 4 mm, making it the biggest ''Ozyptila'' species. Both sexes are similar, generally yellowish brown, with two black lines running along the sides of the

cephalothorax The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...

. Adults can be found at all times.

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atomaria ''Atomaria'' is a genus of silken fungus beetles in the family Cryptophagidae. There are more than 160 described species in ''Atomaria''. See also * List of Atomaria species References Further reading * * External links

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Spiders of Europe Spiders described in 1801 Palearctic spiders