Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Zygiella  F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902   3 species

Zygiella keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1871)

Description
Male

Colouration as in female.

Body length male: 6.0 mm
Female

Prosoma light brown. Legs unicoloured, not annulated. Opisthosoma: dorsum with characteristic pattern, venter with with a white line on each side.

Body length female: 6.7-8.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Portugal: occurence needs confirmation (Morano, 2023)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Southern Europe, Ukraine, Russia (Caucasus), Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Albania  Removed (Vrenozi, unpubl.) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Kosovo   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2013) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019; Morano, 2023) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev & Volkova , 2013) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Gökalp & Kaya, 2017) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk et al., 2008a) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

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, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Chyzer C, Kulczyński W (1891) Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 pls. pdf

Gökalp H B, Kaya R S (2017) A new record of Zygiella for the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15: 130-134 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

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

Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A, Gnelitsa V A, Zhukovets E M (2008a) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Martyan Cape Reserve (Crimea, Ukraine). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4: 3-40 pdf

Levi H W (1974) The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146: 267-290 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Morano E (2023) La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118 pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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

Pantini P, Giliani F, Grottolo M (2023) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) della Valle del Carobbio (Lombardia, Brescia). Monografie di Natura Bresciana 34: 157-170 pdf

Ponomarev A V, Volkova D D (2013) [The first results of the study of spiders (Aranei) fauna of the Abrau Peninsula.] Biodiv. St. Nat. Res. 'Utrish', Sci. Works 1: 228-247 pdf

Vrenozi B (unpubl.) .

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26 pdf

Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136 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

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