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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion nigriceps (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026101

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long, needle-shaped, pointed in antero-lateral direction. Prosoma: cephalic part dark brown to blackish, area between eyes and fovea slightly paler, thoracic part yellowish white. Prosoma length: 1.28-1.50 mm. Legs: coxae white, femora dark brown, tibiae brown to dark brown, metatarsi and tarsi yellowish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum black, glossy, venter and postero-dorsal spot whitish.

Body length male: 2.4-2.9 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate trapezoid, median part with dark transverse stripe. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.32-1.50 mm.

Body length female: 2.9-3.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Retinaculum
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Lissner 2016c)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Lissner 2016c)

Distribution List
France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) |||
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

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

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

Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 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
28-12-2016 Image insert
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail