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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion maculatum (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026089

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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 mm
Female

Epigyne with deep, transverse oval depression. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.80-2.16 mm.

Body length female: 3.8-5.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco, Algeria, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2022)

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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, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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

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

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Benhalima & Bosmans 2020)

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

Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2020; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Oger & Melotti, 2015) ||| Italy   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2020) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2020; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019; Pekár et al., 2003; Pekár & Cardoso, 2005) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Bosmans et al., 2019a) |||
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 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2020) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 (part IV). The species of Morocco (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4899: 93-114 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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 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

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 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Oger P, Melotti G (2015) Découverte en France de Zodarion maculatum (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 2-3 pdf

Pekár S, Cardoso P (2005) Ant-eating spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Portugal: additions to the current knowledge. Zootaxa 1009: 51-60 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 (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

Wunderlich J (2022) Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199 pdf

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