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Civizelotes civicus (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028161

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Description

Bulbus with keel-shaped apophysis. Epigyne anteriorly with transverse, bar-like protrusion. Legs distal segments brighter than opisthosoma. Opisthosoma black-brown to black.

Body length male: 3.4-5.5 mm
Body length female: 3.4-5.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Madeira, Morocco, Western Europe, Switzerland, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2012)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grimm 1985)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)

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female Epigyne
(Pérez-Pérez 1985)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2012)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva
(Pérez-Pérez 1985)

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female Vulva
(Pérez-Pérez 1985)

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female Vulva
(Jézéquel 1962a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Morocco   (Senglet, 2012; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| United Kingdom   (Prince, 2022) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 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

Jézéquel J F (1962a) Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneida, Labidognatha, Drassodidae "Gnaphosidae") de la fauna française. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (Zool. Anz.) 25(Suppl.): 519-532 pdf

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Pérez-Pérez J-A (1985) Artrópodos epigeos del macizo de San Juan de la Peña (Jaca, Prov. de Huesca), VIII. Arañas gnafósidas. Pirineos 126: 61-80 pdf

Prince M (2022) Civizelotes civicus (Simon, 1878) – 'new' to the UK – part I. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 154/SRS News 103: 1 pdf

Senglet A (2012) Civizelotes new genus, and other new or little known Zelotinae (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 119: 501-528 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

Updates
18-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail
04-08-2021 Image insert
25-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
25-03-2014 Image insert