Zygiella keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1871)
Description
Male
Colouration as in female.
Body length male: 6 mmFemale
Prosoma light brown. Legs unicoloured, not annulated. Opisthosoma: dorsum with characteristic pattern, venter with with a white line on each side.
Body length female: 6.7-8 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wiehle 1931)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Levi 1974)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1974)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pantini et al. 2023)
Pedipalp with tibia and patella, retrolateral view
(Pantini et al. 2023)
Pedipalp with tibia and patella, ventral view
(Pantini et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pantini et al. 2023)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1931)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1974)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Levi 1974)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2008a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Chyzer & Kulczyński 1891)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levi 1974)
Vulva, ventral view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2008a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2008a)
Spermatheca, caudal view
(Kovblyuk et al. 2008a)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Levi 1974)
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 (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 
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)
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Chyzer C, Kulczyński W (1891) Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 pls.
Gökalp H B, Kaya R S (2017) A new record of Zygiella for the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15: 130-134
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A, Gnelitsa V A, Zhukovets E M (2008a) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Martyan Cape Reserve (Crimea, Ukraine). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4: 3-40
Levi H W (1974) The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146: 267-290
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].
Morano E (2023) La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Giliani F, Grottolo M (2023) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) della Valle del Carobbio (Lombardia, Brescia). Monografie di Natura Bresciana 34: 157-170
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
Ponomarev A V, Volkova D D (2013) [The first results of the study of spiders (Aranei) fauna of the Abrau Peninsula.] Biodiv. St. Nat. Res. 'Utrish', Sci. Works 1: 228-247
Vrenozi B (unpubl.) .
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26
Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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| 05-07-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 19-06-2021 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 08-06-2020 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 02-06-2017 | Distribution update | Detail |
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| 20-05-2014 | Distribution update | Detail |