Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   154 species

Zodarion graecum  (C. L. Koch, 1843)

Description
Male

Prosoma orange brown, especially clypeus, margin and foveal region suffused with brown. Legs yellowish brown, femur and tibia with darker stripes. Opisthosoma: dorsum sepia to dark sepia, lateral stripe round posterodorsal spot and venter white. Opisthosoma with narrow anteriomedian coriaceous stripe.

Body length male: 2.4-2.9 mm
Female

Females generally paler than males. Legs rarely darker.

Body length female: 3.4-3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): south-eastern Europe, Ukraine, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Blagoev et al., 2018; Deltshev et al., 2022) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| North Macedonia  Removed (Deltshev et al., 2022) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Ukraine   (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 (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 (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Naumova M, Matevski D, Indzhov S (2022) New taxonomic and faunistic data on the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in the Balkans, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5174: 247-261 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Levy G (1992) The spider genera Palaestina, Trygetus, Zodarion and Ranops (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 67-110 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

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
24-08-2022 Distribution update Detail
05-12-2013 Distribution update Detail