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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion pusio Simon, 1914

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026110

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Description

Tibial apophysis with robust terminal hook. Epigyne hardly chitinised. Prosoma pale. Opisthosoma pale.

Body length male: 1.7-2.2 mm
Body length female: 2.6-3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Tunisia
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1993)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pesarini 1993)

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

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

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

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini 1993)

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female Epigyne
(Déjean 2016)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Shafaie et al., 2025c) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Croatia   (Bosmans, 1997) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Bosmans et al., 2019a) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici et al., 2023) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; Kostanjšek & Gorjan, 2013) ||| Tunisia   (Bouragba et al., 2012; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
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

Bosmans R, Pantini P, Loverre P, Addante R (2019a) New species and new records of ant-eating spiders from Mediterranean Europe (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 8-20 pdf

Bouragba N, Bosmans R, Lieutier F (2012) Une nouvelle espèce de Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 (Arachnida, Araneae) d'Algérie, avec un catalogue des Zodariidae du Maghreb. Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 148: 74-83 pdf

Déjean S (2016) Zodarion cesari Pekár et al., 2011 (Araneae, Zodariidae) espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France, découverte en Corse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 3: 14-15 pdf

Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Genna C, Surdo S (2023) First Italian reports of Nemoscolus laurae (Simon, 1868) and Zodarion isabellinum (Simon, 1868) (Araneae Araneidae, Zodariidae) in Sicily and remarkable additions to the Sicilian araneofauna. Biodiversity Journal 14: 693-706 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Gorjan A (2013) A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna - II. Natura Sloveniae 15: 5-12 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

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

Pesarini C (1993) Note su alcuni Zodarion Walckenaer della fauna italiana con descrizione di una nuova specie (Araneae, Zodariidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 133: 5-12 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Korba J, Doumandji S, Berretima W (2025c) Contribution to the zodariid spider fauna (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Algeria. Journal of Natural History 59: 1895-1916 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

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