Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Description
Male
Prosoma medium brown with darker pattern of fine lines. Prosoma length: 1.25 mm. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma with dark brown-grey dorsal scutum, venter sclerotized, in front yellow, cream in posterior third.
Body length male: 2-3 mmFemale
Colouration as in males, dorsal scutum less strongly sclerotized. Prosoma length: 1.35 mm.
Body length female: 2-3 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Pedipalp, dorso-retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Palpal tibia, ventro-lateral view
(Levy 1992)
Palpal tibia, lateral view
(Jocqué 1991)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2023)
Tibial apophysis, dorsal view
(Jocqué 1991)
Chelicerae and eyes, frontal view
(Levy 1992)
Habitus, frontal view
(Lecigne 2023)
Epigyne
(Jocqué 1991)
Epigyne
(Levy 1992)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
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.
References
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Jocqué R (1991) A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160
Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51
Levy G (1992) The spider genera Palaestina, Trygetus, Zodarion and Ranops (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 67-110
Shafaie S, Pekár S, Seyyar O (2025d) New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2