Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion elegans (Simon, 1873)

Description

Tibial apophysis with broad distal part, with a pointed tooth. Prosoma with dark brown head region and yellow-brown posterior part. Legs yellowish. Femur I, II and distal parts of femur III and IV dark brown. Opisthosoma brown-black, dorsal spot and ventral side whitish.

Body length male: 2.3-3.1 mm
Body length female: 2.8-3.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal to Greece, Algeria, Tunisia
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Algeria   (Bouragba et al., 2012; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Bouragba et al., 2012; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bouragba N, Bosmans R, Lieutier F (2012) Une nouvelle espèce de Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 (Arachnida, Araneae) d'Algérie, avec un catalogue des Zodariidae du Maghreb. Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 148: 74-83 pdf

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

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pesarini C (1993) Note su alcuni Zodarion Walckenaer della fauna italiana con descrizione di una nuova specie (Araneae, Zodariidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 133: 5-12 pdf

Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Korba J, Doumandji S, Berretima W (2025c) Contribution to the zodariid spider fauna (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Algeria. Journal of Natural History 59: 1895-1916 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

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