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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion ruffoi Caporiacco, 1951

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis as long as diameter of palpal tibia. 

Body length male: 1.5-1.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with rounded indentation.

Body length female: 1.6-2.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy
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Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Coşar, 2021a; Coşar et al., 2022c) |||
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

Coşar İ (2021a) Two new species of Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Zootaxa 4948: 559-568 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Elverici M (2022c) First description of the females of two species of Zodarion (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 5178: 92-100 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
24-08-2022 Distribution update Detail
23-03-2021 Distribution update Detail
27-11-2014 Distribution update Detail