Zodarion maculatum (Simon, 1870)
Description
Male
Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long, basal part with parallel margins, distal part with a blunt postero-median lobe. Prosoma dark brown-black. Prosoma length: 1.64-1.88 mm. Legs: coxae and patellae white, femora brown to black-brown, tibiae to tarsi yellowish brown, metatarsi sometimes slightly darkened. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, with a row of 5 chevrons or spots, the 3 posterior ones sometimes merged into a longitudinal spot, venter and lateral stripe whitish.
Body length male: 3.4-3.9 mmFemale
Epigyne with deep, transverse oval depression. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.80-2.16 mm.
Body length female: 3.8-5.4 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)
Epigyne
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2020) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 (part IV). The species of Morocco (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4899: 93-114
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosmans R (1997) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part II. Western and Central Europe, including Italy (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 265-294
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Oger P, Melotti G (2015) Découverte en France de Zodarion maculatum (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 2-3
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Pekár S, Cardoso P (2005) Ant-eating spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Portugal: additions to the current knowledge. Zootaxa 1009: 51-60
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
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
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (2022) Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199
Updates
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| 08-06-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 03-01-2021 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 15-07-2020 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 15-02-2019 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 21-03-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |
| 12-10-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 15-04-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |