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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   139 species

Zodarion italicum  (Canestrini, 1868)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026078

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Description

Embolus with bent tip. Spermathecae with atrium, clearly visible. Prosoma brown to dark brown with dark pattern. Legs yellowish-orange. Opisthosoma dorsally dark purple-brown, ventrally uniformly pale yellow.

Body length male: 1.6-2.9 mm
Body length female: 2.1-4.3 mm
Additional information

Since a few decades, this species shows some spreading tendencies within Europe. Nevertheless, it shall not be listed as alien or invasive because it is native for Europe.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 1993)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler & Noflatscher 1990)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp
(Denis 1937a)

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male Pedipalp
(Pesarini 1993)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Tip of embolus
(Pesarini 1993)

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male Retinaculum, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini 1993)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Thaler & Noflatscher 1990)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

Distribution List
Austria   (no references) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2020) ||| Belgium   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (no references) ||| Czechia   (no references) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Ukraine   (no references) ||| United Kingdom   (no references) |||
References

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) pdf

Bosmans R (1997) Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part II.  Western and Central Europe, including Italy (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 265-294 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Denis J (1937a) Contribution à l'étude des araignées du genre Zodarion Walckenaer. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 1-50 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (1993) Note su alcuni Zodarion Walckenaer della fauna italiana con descrizione di una nuova specie (Araneae, Zodariidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 133: 5-12 pdf

Thaler K, Noflatscher M-T (1990) Neue und bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Südtirol (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 69: 169-190 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail
29-12-2019 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail