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Genus: Palaestina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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Described:

Distribution: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK mm ff (B. 439, t. 9, 15) - (Levy, 1992)
Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (B. 439, t. 16) of Palaestina smyrna - (Levy, 1992)

Taxonomic References

Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 269, pl. 13, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Palaestina expolita Simon, 1893a: 439, f. 412-413 (m)

Palaestina expolita Roewer, 1928b: 119 (Df)

Palaestina expolita Jocqué, 1991a: 138, f. 336-342 (mf)

Palaestina smyrna Jocqué, 1991a: 141, f. 351a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065000]

Palaestina expolita Levy, 1992: 69, f. 1-12 (mf, S of Palaestina smyrna)

Palaestina expolita Lecigne, 2023: 24, f. 17A-F (m)

Palaestina expolita Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 31, f. 21A-D, 22A-F (mf)

References

Jocqué, R. (1991a). A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2023). New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38(1, supplement): 1-51. -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1928b). Araneae. In: Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea und besonders auf der Insel Kreta. II. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 27(1): 92-124, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Shafaie, S., Pekár, S. & Seyyar, O. (2025). New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1016.3063 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025
2023-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2023