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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion affine  (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026031

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis elongated, with oblique groove. Prosoma dark brown. Prosoma length: 1.30-1.52 mm. Legs: coxae I-II dark brown, coxae III-IV yellowish brown, femora dark brown to dark reddish brown, tibiae brown, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish brown. Opisthosoma dark sepia, oval spots above spinnerets and venter whitish.

Body length male: 2.3-3.4 mm
Female

Epigyne with two oval depressions. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.54-1.56 mm.

Body length female: 2.8-3.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1994b)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1994b)

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.

Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R (1994b) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands (Araneae, Zodariidae). Eos 69: 115-142 pdf

Bosmans R, Pantini P, Loverre P, Addante R (2019a) New species and new records of ant-eating spiders from Mediterranean Europe (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 8-20 pdf

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

Quevedo-Ortiz G, Pinilla Rosa M (2024b) Aportación al conocimiento aracnológico (Araneae) del noreste y sureste de la península ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 175-177 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-07-2024 Image insert
14-02-2019 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail