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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion barbarae Bosmans, 2009

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042923

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellowish orange, slightly suffused with grey. Legs yellowish to orange brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, venter and small posterodorsal spot pale yellowish white.

Body length male: 2.3 mm
Female

Colouration as in males

Body length female: 3.3-3.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Brignoli 1984b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1984b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp in detail, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Özkütük 2022)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Özkütük 2022)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Özkütük 2022)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Özkütük 2022)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2024)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Median apophysis
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Epigyne
(Özkütük 2022)

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female Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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female Vulva
(Özkütük 2022)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Bosmans, 2009) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Özkütük, 2022) |||
References

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 pdf

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 pdf

Brignoli P M (1984b) Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 281-321 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T (2024) A new species of spinibarbe species-group of Zodarion (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Arthropoda Selecta 33: 267-272 pdf

Özkütük R S (2022) A new ant-eating spider record (Aranei: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 18: 239-242 pdf

Shafaie S, Pekár S, Seyyar O (2025d) New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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