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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion reticulatum Kulczyński, 1908

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026114

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish orange, mottled with grey. Legs yellowish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia brown, with pale spots anterior to spinnerets, venter uniformly whitish. Dorsal scutum shiny, covering 4/5 of opisthosoma's length.

Body length male: 5.0 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate with relatively wide septum. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 6.2-6.6 mm
Additional information

in degraded phrygana (Chios, Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Cyprus
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

species

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

species

male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 2009)

species

male Tip of embolus, ventral view
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

species

female Epigyne
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2009)

species

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

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) |||
References

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, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Lecigne S, Henrard A (2022) Zodarion nigrifemur Caporiacco, 1948 newly recorded for the Turkish fauna (Araneae, Zodariidae). Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 37: 32-40 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 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

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
23-09-2025 Image insert
10-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
06-07-2022 Image insert
16-10-2013 Distribution update Detail