Zodarion thoni Nosek, 1905
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, marbled with dark brown. Legs yellowish orange, femur I dark brown, with or without yellow lateral streak, femora II-IV gradually becoming yellowish orange. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia brown, with round whitish posterodorsal spot, venter with a pair of whitish spots, separated by a dark stripe (width very variable). Opisthosoma with shiny scutum, covering 2/3 of opisthosoma's length
Body length male: 2.8-3.9 mmFemale
Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 2.9-5.9 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)
Bulbus
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Embolus and conductor
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 2009)
Tip of embolus, ventral view
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)
Tegular apophysis
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Tibia
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)
Epigyne
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2009)
Spermathecae, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
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.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
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
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kovblyuk M M (2003c) Spiders of the genus Zodarion (Aranei: Zodariidae) in the fauna of the Crimea. Euroasian Entomological Journal 1: 177-183
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
Levy G (1992) The spider genera Palaestina, Trygetus, Zodarion and Ranops (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 67-110
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2