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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion abantense Wunderlich, 1980

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026026

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, reticulated with black. Prosoma length: 1.4 mm. Legs yellow-brown, femur I dark brown, femora II-IV somewhat paler. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark violet brown, venter with rounded, whitishspot.

Body length male: 3.1-3.9 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 4.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus (Georgia, Russia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Danışman & Rubio 2017)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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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 Median apophysis
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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female Epigyne
(Danışman & Rubio 2017)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1980b)

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female Vulva
(Danışman & Rubio 2017)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Dimitrov 2020c)

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.

Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Danışman & Rubio, 2017; Dimitrov, 2020c) |||
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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Danışman T, Rubio G D (2017) A new species of Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Entomological News 127: 178-183 pdf

Dimitrov D (2020c) Taxonomic contribution to the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 in Turkey with description of a new species (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4810: 361-367 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

Wunderlich J (1980b) Zur Gattung Zodarion Walckenaer 1847 mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae: Zodariidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 229-240 pdf

Updates
22-09-2025 Image insert
10-07-2020 Image insert
10-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
21-03-2016 Datasheet update Detail
18-12-2014 Image insert