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Zoropsidae  Bertkau, 1882 / Zoropsis  Simon, 1878   9 species

Zoropsis bilineata Dahl, 1901

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020378

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis spur-like. Cymbium spoon-shaped, retrolateral/proximal region bulging, with a field of bristles in distal region. Tegulum broad proximally, prolateral part with lamella-like seam, protruding distally, with conductor. Ventral part of tegulum also sclerotized. Tegular apophysis situated in distal third of bulbus. Embolus directed retrolaterad, relatively  slender. Conductor strap-shaped.

Female

Prosoma with light, broad band, reaching from the posterior lateral eyes to fovea. Prosoma length: 5.2-7.5 mm. Opisthosoma: dorsum with 2 black-brown, parallel lines, broken two times, converging posteriorly.

Body length female: 11-19 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain (Balearic Is.), Morocco, Algeria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998c)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998c)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Epigyne
(Thaler & Knoflach 1998c)

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female Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (1998c) Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour), eine für Österreich neue Adventivart (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 85: 173-185 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
15-05-2025 Image insert
27-04-2025 Distribution update Detail