Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Zodarion  Walckenaer, 1826   157 species

Zodarion kossamos Bosmans, 2009

Description

Prosoma brown, suffused with chocolate brown, eye region and margin darker. Legs yellowish orange, femur I brown, tibiae laterally streaked with brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, venter pale sepia to whitish.

Body length male: 3.1-3.8 mm
Body length female: 5.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey
Phenology
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Distribution List
Greece   (Bosmans, 2009) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Lecigne, 2011) |||
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 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

Lecigne S (2011) Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d’Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46: 5-83 pdf

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 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
22-09-2025 Image insert
23-03-2021 Distribution update Detail
19-11-2018 Distribution update Detail