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Genus: Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Zodarion algiricum (Lucas, 1846)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026034

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Tunisia

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (AR9944) - (Shafaie et al., 2025)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2f 5j (AR9944) - (Shafaie et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Enyo algirica Lucas, 1846: 230, pl. 14, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Zodarion algiricum Bosmans et al., 2019a: 11, f. 4j-l (mf)

Zodarion algiricum Shafaie et al., 2025: 1898, f. 1B, 2B, 3B, H, 4A, 5A, 6A-C (mf)

References

Bosmans, R., Pantini, P., Loverre, P. & Addante, R. (2019a). New species and new records of ant-eating spiders from Mediterranean Europe (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 8-20. doi: 10.30963/aramit5703 -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.112444 -- Show included taxa

Shafaie, S., Pekár, S., Korba, J., Doumandji, S. & Berretima, W. (2025). Contribution to the zodariid spider fauna (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Algeria. Journal of Natural History 59(25-28): 1895-1916. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2501589 -- 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
2025-06-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie et al., 2025
2024-12-12	Species distribution update	Bosmans, 2003	Old value
2020-12-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Zodarion valentii Bosmans, Loverre & Addante, 2019
2020-12-30	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Zodarion valentii Bosmans, Loverre & Addante, 2019
2019-02-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans et al., 2019a