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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion gallicum (Simon, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026067

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Description

Epigyne with narrow posterior median plate, as long as wide. Prosoma red-brown. Femur mostly slightly darkened. Opisthosoma brown-violet.

Body length male: 1.7-2.4 mm
Body length female: 2.2-3.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: North Macedonia should be verified
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy, Balkans
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1998)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Roberts 1998)

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male Tip of embolus
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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male Retinaculum
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Roberts 1998)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

Distribution List
Belgium  Removed (Bosmans, 1997) ||| Croatia   (Bosmans, 1997) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025; Pantini et al., 2013) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Coşar, 2021a) |||
References

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

Coşar İ (2021a) Two new species of Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Zootaxa 4948: 559-568 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. pdf

Snazell R, Bosmans R (1998) Zodarion vicinum Denis, 1935: new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 81: 8-10 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
23-03-2021 Distribution update Detail
18-02-2016 Image insert
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail