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Zoropsidae  Bertkau, 1882 / Zoropsis  Simon, 1878   9 species

Zoropsis media  Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020385

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Description
Male

Tibial apophysis of the pedipalpus short and wide and distinctly divided. Median apophysis in more basal position. Posterior margin of the chelicerae with 2 teeth.

prosoma length: 4.5 mm, prosoma width: 3-5 mm.

Body length male: 9-11 mm
Female

Posterior margin of the chelicerae with 2 teeth.

prosoma length: 4.5 mm, prosoma width: 3.4 mm.

Body length female: 9-11 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western Mediterranean
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Levy 1990a)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos et al. 1985)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2002)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers 2002)

species

male Chelicera
(Barrientos et al. 1985)

species

female Epigyne
(Levy 1990a)

species

female Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2002)

species

female Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1990a)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Blasco A, Ferrández M A, Godall P, Pérez P, Rambla M, Urones M C (1985) Artrópodos epigeos del macizo de San Juan de la Peña (Jaca, Prov. de Huesca): XII. Familias de araneidos de escasa representación. Pirineos 126: 211-234 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Bosselaers J (2002) A cladistic analysis of Zoropsidae (Araneae), with the description of a new genus. Belgian Journal of Zoology 132: 141-154 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

Levy G (1990a) On the cribellate spider Zoropsis lutea in Israel (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 139-143 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-12-2018 Image insert
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
11-06-2013 Image insert
16-04-2013 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail