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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion affine (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026031

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis elongated, with oblique groove. Prosoma dark brown. Prosoma length: 1.30-1.52 mm. Legs: coxae I-II dark brown, coxae III-IV yellowish brown, femora dark brown to dark reddish brown, tibiae brown, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish brown. Opisthosoma dark sepia, oval spots above spinnerets and venter whitish.

Body length male: 2.3-3.4 mm
Female

Epigyne with two oval depressions. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.54-1.56 mm.

Body length female: 2.8-3.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1994b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)

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

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

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

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1994b)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019a)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1994b)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

Distribution List
Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R (1994b) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands (Araneae, Zodariidae). Eos 69: 115-142 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

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

Quevedo-Ortiz G, Pinilla Rosa M (2024b) Aportación al conocimiento aracnológico (Araneae) del noreste y sureste de la península ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 175-177 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Ortiz D (2025b) Zodarion spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae): morphology, molecular characterisation and reassessment of the elegans, italicum, and pusio groups from Iberia and the Canary Islands. Journal of Natural History 59: 1825-1875 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

Updates
04-07-2025 Image insert
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14-02-2019 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail