Zodarion marginiceps Simon, 1914
Description
Male
Pedipalp: tibial apophysis long, terminal part bifid. Prosoma bicoloured: eye region, clypeus, V-shaped stripe and radiating striae reddish brown, remaining parts yellowish brown. Legs brown, basal part of femora yellowish brown, metatarsi and tarsi paler, sometimes femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia, with a large white spot anterior to the spinnerets, venter whitish, laterally extending in antero-dorsal direction, area before spinnerets und usually the median stripe coloured as dorsum.
Body length male: 3.2-4.4 mmFemale
Epigyne with large median plate with shallow anterior depression. Colouration as in males. Prosoma length: 1.62-2.20 mm.
Body length female: 2.4-4.8 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans 1997)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025b)
Vulva
(Bosmans 1997)
Distribution List
References
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Shafaie S, Pekár S, Ortiz D (2025b) Zodarion spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae): morphology, molecular characterisation and reassessment of the elegans, italicum, and pusio groups from Iberia and the Canary Islands. Journal of Natural History 59: 1825-1875
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2