''Thanatus vulgaris'' is a species of running crab spider in the family

Philodromidae Philodromidae, also known as philodromid crab spiders and running crab spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell in 1870 (then known as subfamily Philodrominae within Thomisidae). It contains over ...

. It is found in North America, Europe, North Africa,

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, Israel, Caucasus, a range from Russia (European to

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), Central Asia, China, and Korea.

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species ''Thanatus vulgaris'': * (''Thanatus vulgaris vulgaris'') Simon, 1870 * ''Thanatus vulgaris creticus'' Kulczynski, 1903

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* Philodromidae Articles created by Qbugbot Spiders described in 1870 {{philodromidae-stub