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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion merlijni  Bosmans, 1994

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026093

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow with light brown pattern. Prosoma length: 1.86 mm. Sternum pale. Legs: femur I light brown, remaining segments yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, with a whitish spot above the spinnerets.

Body length male: 2.4-3.5 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.1-3.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

species

female Epigyne
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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female Vulva
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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.

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| 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

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

Pekár S, Cardoso P (2005) Ant-eating spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Portugal: additions to the current knowledge. Zootaxa 1009: 51-60 pdf

Pekár S, Cardoso P, Meierrose C (2003) Additions to the knowledge of Portuguese zodariid spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 385-395 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