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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion pseudoelegans Denis, 1934

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026109

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis terminally with 2 pointed teeth. Prosoma bicoloured: eye region, clypeus, V-shaped stripe and radiating striae reddish brown, remaining parts yellowish brown. Legs brown, basal part of femora yellowish brown, metatarsi and tarsi paler, sometimes femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, with some smaller whitish spots and a large white spot anterior to the spinnerets, venter whitish, laterally extending in antero-dorsal direction, area before spinnerets und usually the median stripe coloured as dorsum.

Body length male: 2.3-3.6 mm
Female

Epigyne with sausage-shaped median epigynal groove. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.80-2.30 mm.

Body length female: 3.4-5.1 mm
Additional information

In citrus groves and Pinus forests

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), France
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Mestre et al., 2012) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

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

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

Mestre L, Piñol J, Barrientos J A, Cama A, Espadaler X (2012) Effects of ant competition and bird predation on the spider assemblage of a citrus grove. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 355-362 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Ortiz D (2025b) Zodarion spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae): morphology, molecular characterisation and reassessment of the elegans, italicum, and pusio groups from Iberia and the Canary Islands. Journal of Natural History 59: 1825-1875 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
04-07-2025 Image insert