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Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion vicinum Denis, 1935

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026139

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Description

Embolus with ridge, relatively robust tip. Prosoma brown to dark brown with dark pattern. Opisthosoma dorsally dark purple-brown, ventrally uniformly pale yellow.

Body length male: 2.1-2.8 mm
Body length female: 2.7-3.8 mm
Additional information

Originally in southern Italy, probably imported to S-England (Dover)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Britain, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Pedipalp
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)

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male Tip of embolus
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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female Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)

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female Vulva
(Snazell & Bosmans 1998)

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Retinaculum
(Bosmans 1997)

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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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

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

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