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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion bacelarae Pekár, 2003

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038987

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Description
Male

Pedipalpus: tibial apophysis long and thin. Embolus with hooked terminal and pointed subterminal teeth. Prosoma light brown, stripe between eyes and fovea yellow. Prosoma length: 1.7-2.2 mm. Chelicerae and sternum light brown. Legs: femur I brown with lighter base, femora II-IV yellow, with brown distal end, remaining segments yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, venter mostly whitish.

Body length male: 3.4-4.2 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate longer than wide, lateral margins converging anteriorly, anterior margin with tiny ring. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.5-2.9 mm. Chelicerae and sternum yellow. Legs: femora I-II distally light brown, remaining segments yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, venter pale.

Body length female: 3.4-6.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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

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

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female Epigyne
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pekár et al. 2003)

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

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(Shafaie et al. 2025a)

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.

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Pekár S, Cardoso P, Meierrose C (2003) Additions to the knowledge of Portuguese zodariid spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 385-395 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Ortiz D (2025a) Integrative taxonomy of the Iberian Zodarion species of the rubidum and styliferum groups (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 5624: 1-69 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
13-05-2025 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail