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 mmBody length female: 2.8-3.8 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1993)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Tibial apophysis
(Bosmans 1997)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)
Epigyne
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
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
Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
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
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
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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].
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
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
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
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