''Ozyptila flava'' is a crab spider species found in Spain.
[ It is one of a number of species first described by ]Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
that do not appear to have been studied since.
Description
Simon described only the female of ''Ozyptila flava''. It has a light fawn coloured 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 ...
, with two marginal bands and two dorsal bands, all brown-red in colour, and with club-shaped black hairs. The abdomen is also light fawn, with several irregular brownish lines in the second half, and with short black hairs of two kinds. The legs are light fawn. The femur of the first leg has two short sub-acute spines, the femurs of the second and third legs have only one spine. The metatarsus of the first leg has a lateral spine.[
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References
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Spiders of Europe
Spiders described in 1875
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