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Zoropsidae  Bertkau, 1882 / Zoropsis  Simon, 1878   9 species

Zoropsis rufipes (Lucas, 1838)

Description
Additional information

introduced from the Canary Is., not established

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Madeira. Introduced to Ireland, Britain, Germany
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Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1956b) ||| Ireland   (Pack-Beresford, 1910) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood & Beccaloni, 2023) |||
References

Pack-Beresford D R (1910) Zoropsis maculosus introduced at Limerick. The Irish Naturalist 19: 138 pdf

Schmidt G (1956b) Zoropsis rufipes (Luc.), eine canarische Jagdspinne. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 78-85 pdf

Sherwood D, Beccaloni J (2023) Zoropsis rufipes (Lucas, 1838), a historical stowaway from the Canary Islands to the United Kingdom in bananas (Araneae: Zoropsidae). Serket 19: 258-263 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (1998c) Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour), eine für Österreich neue Adventivart (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 85: 173-185 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

Updates
22-09-2026 Distribution insert Detail
17-06-2023 Image insert
17-06-2023 Distribution insert Detail