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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion nigriceps  (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026101

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long, needle-shaped, pointed in antero-lateral direction. Prosoma: cephalic part dark brown to blackish, area between eyes and fovea slightly paler, thoracic part yellowish white. Prosoma length: 1.28-1.50 mm. Legs: coxae white, femora dark brown, tibiae brown to dark brown, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum black, glossy, venter and postero-dorsal spot whitish.

Body length male: 2.4-2.9 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate trapezoid, median part with dark transverse stripe. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.32-1.50 mm.

Body length female: 2.9-3.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Retinaculum
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Lissner 2016c)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lissner 2016c)

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.

France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) |||
References

Bosmans R (1997) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part II.  Western and Central Europe, including Italy (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 265-294 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15 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

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 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
28-12-2016 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail