Zodarion morosum Denis, 1935
Description
Male
Prosoma brown to dark brown, speckled. Legs pale yellowish to yellowish orange, coxae and basal part of femora white, dark brown distally. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark sepia brown, males with coriaceous region covering 2/3 of opisthosoma's length, venter and small posterdorsal spot whitish.
Body length male: 2.62-3.45 mmFemale
Females often paler than males. Only femora I-II infuscated.
Body length female: 3.04-5.02 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans 2009)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans 2009)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nae 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nae 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Embolus
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Median apophysis
(Bosmans 2009)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Tibia, retrolateral view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Epigyne
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Epigyne
(Bosmans 2009)
Epigyne
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
Endogyne, ventral view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Endogyne, dorsal view
(Kovblyuk 2003c)
Vulva
(Bosmans 2009)
Vulva, ventral view
(Nae 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Nae 2023)
Vulva, ventral view
(Shafaie et al. 2025d)
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.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232
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, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
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
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
Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kovblyuk M M (2003c) Spiders of the genus Zodarion (Aranei: Zodariidae) in the fauna of the Crimea. Euroasian Entomological Journal 1: 177-183
Nae A (2023) First record for Zodarion morosum (Araneae, Zodariidae), Lessertinella kulczynskii (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and reconfirmation of Palliduphantes milleri (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in the Romanian fauna. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 62: 55-66
Naumova M, Hristovski S, Hristov G H (2016b) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68: 503-511
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Gnelitsa V, Terekhova V, Iosypchuk A (2021) New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55: 95-112
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297
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
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