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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion marginiceps Simon, 1914

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026091

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long, terminal part bifid. Prosoma bicoloured: eye region, clypeus, V-shaped stripe and radiating striae reddish brown, remaining parts yellowish brown. Legs brown, basal part of femora yellowish brown, metatarsi and tarsi paler, sometimes femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, with a large white spot anterior to the spinnerets, venter whitish, laterally extending in antero-dorsal direction, area before spinnerets und usually the median stripe coloured as dorsum.

Body length male: 3.2-4.4 mm
Female

Epigyne with large median plate with shallow anterior depression. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.62-2.20 mm.

Body length female: 2.4-4.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France
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, prolateral 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 Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-07-2025 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail
16-04-2013 Image insert