Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion hauseri Brignoli, 1984

Description
Male

Prosoma chocolate brown mottled with yellowish brown, especially between striae. Legs yellowish orange, femur I and somewhat less femur II streaked with chocolate brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia brown, males with shiny scutum, venter and elongated spot above spinnerets whitish.

Body length male: 2.1-2.3 mm
Female

Apart the much paler prosoma, colouration as in males.

Body length female: 2.9-3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece
Phenology
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Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova et al., 2017) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Stefanovska et al., 2008; Komnenov, 2014) |||
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

Brignoli P M (1984b) Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 281-321 pdf

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

Naumova M V, Blagoev G, Dimitrov D, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2017) New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 69: 477-481 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

Stefanovska D, Naumova M, Prelik D, Deltshev C, Lazarov S (2008) Spiders from the Skopje region: a faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 19: 35-49 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

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