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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion christae Bosmans, 2009

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042936

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis elongated, with basal boss, gradually narrowing, with subterminal and terminal blunt teeth. Prosoma yellowish orange, suffused with grey. Legs yellowish orange. Opisthosoma: dorsum sepia brown with very small oval posterodorsal spots, venter whitish.

Body length male: 4.8-5.0 mm
Female

Epigyne: posterior margin with semi-circular incision with large median hood. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5.1-6.2 mm
Additional information

In Greece only known from Rhodes and Chios

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey
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, retrolateral view
(Coşar et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Coşar et al. 2021)

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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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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

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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
(Coşar et al. 2021)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Coşar et al. 2021)

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

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.

Greece   (Bosmans, 2009) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar et al., 2021) |||
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

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yağmur E A (2021) Contributions to the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 in Turkey, with the description of a new species (Araneae: Zodariidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 45: 46-53 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-09-2025 Image insert
26-01-2021 Image insert
25-01-2021 Distribution update Detail
25-01-2021 Distribution insert Detail