Zodarion extraneum Denis, 1935
Description
Male
Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long and thin, broad at base, with short distal hook. Prosoma and sternum yellow to brown. Prosoma length: 1.2-1.5 mm. Legs: femur I brown, femora II-IV yellow with brown distal ends, remaining segments yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark brown, venter whitish.
Body length male: 2.4-3.1 mmFemale
Epigyne: median plate rectangular, twice as long as wide, with 2 membranous postero-lateral projections. Prosoma dark brown-red, cephalic part lighter, ocular area blackish. Prosoma length: 1.4-1.9 mm. Chelicerae brown-red. Sternum yellow, margins brown-red. Legs yellow, femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown-purple, slightly lighter above spinnerets, venter yellow, suffused with brown.
Body length female: 4.0 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Pekár et al. 2003)
Pedicel, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Pekár et al. 2003)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Denis 1935a)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Distribution List
References
Denis J (1935a) A propos de quelques araignées du genre Zodarion Walck., appartenant àa la faune française. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 67: 51-68 
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 (2025a) Integrative taxonomy of the Iberian Zodarion species of the rubidum and styliferum groups (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 5624: 1-69
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (2022) Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199