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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion graecum (C. L. Koch, 1843)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026071

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Description
Male

Prosoma orange brown, especially clypeus, margin and foveal region suffused with brown. Legs yellowish brown, femur and tibia with darker stripes. Opisthosoma: dorsum sepia to dark sepia, lateral stripe round posterodorsal spot and venter white. Opisthosoma with narrow anteriomedian coriaceous stripe.

Body length male: 2.4-2.9 mm
Female

Females generally paler than males. Legs rarely darker.

Body length female: 3.4-3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): south-eastern Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Levy 1992)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2009)

species

female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

species

female Vulva
(Bosmans 2009)

Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Blagoev et al., 2018; Deltshev et al., 2022) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia  Removed (Deltshev et al., 2022) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine  Removed (Mikhailov, 2022) |||
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

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 pdf

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 pdf

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Deltshev C, Naumova M, Matevski D, Indzhov S (2022) New taxonomic and faunistic data on the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in the Balkans, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5174: 247-261 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

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 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2022) Progress in the study of the spider fauna (Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring regions: a 2020 update. Invertebrate Zoology 19: 295-304, Supplements 1.01-1.15, 2.01-2.24. pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. 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
23-04-2025 Distribution update Detail
24-08-2022 Distribution update Detail
05-12-2013 Distribution update Detail