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Zoropsidae  Bertkau, 1882 / Zoropsis  Simon, 1878   8 species

Zoropsis media  Simon, 1878

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020385

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Description
Male

Tibial apophysis of the pedipalpus short and wide and distinctly divided. Median apophysis in more basal position. Posterior margin of the chelicerae with 2 teeth.

prosoma length: 4.5 mm, prosoma width: 3-5 mm.

Body length male: 9-11 mm
Female

Posterior margin of the chelicerae with 2 teeth.

prosoma length: 4.5 mm, prosoma width: 3.4 mm.

Body length female: 9-11 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Western Mediterranean
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Levy 1990a)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Barrientos et al. 1985)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2002)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers 2002)

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male Chelicera
(Barrientos et al. 1985)

species

female Epigyne
(Levy 1990a)

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female Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2002)

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female Epigyne
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1990a)

Distribution List
Algeria   ( Bosmans, unpubl.; ) ||| France   ( no references ) ||| Italy   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Italy / Sardinia   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Morocco   ( Bosmans, unpubl.; ) ||| Portugal   ( no references ) ||| Spain   ( no references ) ||| Tunisia   ( Bosmans, unpubl.; ) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Blasco A, Ferrández M A, Godall P, Pérez P, Rambla M, Urones M C (1985) Artrópodos epigeos del macizo de San Juan de la Peña (Jaca, Prov. de Huesca): XII. Familias de araneidos de escasa representación. Pirineos 126: 211-234

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Bosselaers J (2002) A cladistic analysis of Zoropsidae (Araneae), with the description of a new genus. Belg J Zool 132: 141-154

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Levy G (1990a) On the cribellate spider Zoropsis lutea in Israel (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 139-143 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online Catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other Arachnid Orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
17-12-2018 Image insert
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
11-06-2013 Image insert
16-04-2013 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail