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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion fuscum  (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026066

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Description
Male

Male palp with approximately equally long terminal teeth on embolus. Prosoma orange-brown, clypeus, margin and striae dark brown. Prosoma length: 1.22-1.48 mm. Legs: coxae, patellae and tarsi yellowish white, femora dark brown, tibiae and metatarsi brown, often with yellow brown streaks. Opisthosoma dark sepia, postero-dorsal spot (sometimes preceded by 4-5 narrow transverse stripes) and venter whitish.

Body length male: 2.2-3.2 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate wide, trapezoid, with antero-lateral semi-circular pits. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.46-1.64 mm.

 

Body length female: 3.2-4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Britain, France, Spain, Portugal
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Askins 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp
(Askins 1999)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Breitling 2020)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Askins 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Denis 1937a)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Askins M (1999) Zodarion fuscum (Simon, 1870): a spider new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 86: 11 pdf

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

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Denis J (1937a) Contribution à l'étude des araignées du genre Zodarion Walckenaer. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 1-50 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 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
04-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert