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 mmFemale
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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Askins 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp
(Askins 1999)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Breitling 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 1997)
Epigyne
(Askins 1999)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 1997)
Epigyne
(Denis 1937a)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
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(Shafaie et al. 2025a)
Distribution List
References
Askins M (1999) Zodarion fuscum (Simon, 1870): a spider new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 86: 11 
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Denis J (1937a) Contribution à l'étude des araignées du genre Zodarion Walckenaer. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 1-50
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Shafaie S, Pekár S, Ortiz D (2025a) Integrative taxonomy of the Iberian Zodarion species of the rubidum and styliferum groups (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 5624: 1-69
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2