Zodarion granulatum Kulczyński, 1908
Description
Prosoma female: yellowish-brown, male: densely granulated, dark brown, median and eye field black. Legs female: yellow, male: yellow-brown. Femur male: brown. Opisthosoma female: uniform purple-brown, laterally with big light brown spots, male: shining black, dorsally granulated, dark purple to light brown laterally and ventrally.
Body length male: 2.5 mmBody length female: 2.3 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp
(Levy 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Brignoli 1984b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1984b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2022)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dimitrov 2024)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Tip of embolus
(Bosmans 2009)
Tip of embolus, ventral view
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)
Pedicel, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)
Epigyne
(Lecigne & Henrard 2022)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1984b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Bosmans 2009)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Levy 1992)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Levy 1992)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1992)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Levy 1992)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Levy 1992)
Distribution List
References
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 
Bosmans R, Gavalas I (2023) The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11 (Suppl. 1): 1-91
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147
Brignoli P M (1984b) Ragni di Grecia XII. Nuovi dati su varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 91: 281-321
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
Dimitrov D (2024) On the taxonomy of the Zodarion thoni species-group (Araneae, Zodariidae), with description of a new species with an unmodified embolus. Zootaxa 5419: 112-120
Lecigne S, Henrard A (2022) Zodarion nigrifemur Caporiacco, 1948 newly recorded for the Turkish fauna (Araneae, Zodariidae). Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 37: 32-40
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
Shafaie S, Pekár S, Seyyar O (2025d) New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (2022) Some spiders (Araneae) of the Western Palearctic. Beiträge zur Araneologie 15: 4-78, 199