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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

"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   (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 (13.2.2026) 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