Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion fuscum  (Simon, 1870)

Description
Male

Male palp with approximately equally long terminal teeth on embolus. Prosoma orange-brown, clypeus, margin and striae dark brown. Prosoma length: 1.22-1.48 mm. Legs: coxae, patellae and tarsi yellowish white, femora dark brown, tibiae and metatarsi brown, often with yellow brown streaks. Opisthosoma dark sepia, postero-dorsal spot (sometimes preceded by 4-5 narrow transverse stripes) and venter whitish.

Body length male: 2.2-3.2 mm
Female

Epigyne: median plate wide, trapezoid, with antero-lateral semi-circular pits. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.46-1.64 mm.

 

Body length female: 3.2-4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Britain, France, Spain, Portugal
Phenology
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Askins M (1999) Zodarion fuscum (Simon, 1870): a spider new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 86: 11 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). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert