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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion aculeatum Chyzer, 1897

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026028

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Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, cephalic part reticulated with dark brown. Legs orange brown, femur I brown, femur II pale brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, males with large scutum, venter and elongated posterodorsal spot whitish.

Body length male: 3.4 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 4.4-6.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Serbia, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2009)

species

male Median apophysis
(Bosmans 2009)

species

female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 2009)

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.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020; Vrenozi & Jäger, 2013) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Kosovo  Removed (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Bosmans R (2009) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part III. South East Europe and Turkey (Araneae: Zodariidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 211-295 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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
23-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
22-09-2025 Image insert
19-06-2021 Distribution update Detail
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
01-07-2014 Distribution update Detail