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

Zodarion cesari Pekár, 2011

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043871

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, France (Corsica), Algeria

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (62406) - (Pekár et al., 2011)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (62407) - (Pekár et al., 2011)

Taxonomic References

Zodarion cesari Pekár in Pekár et al., 2011: 23, f. 3-6 (Dmf) Original description

Zodarion cesari Déjean, 2016: 14, f. 1A,D, 2A-C, 3B, 4 (mf)

Zodarion cesari Shafaie et al., 2025: 1905, f. 4D, 5D, 9A-C (m)

Zodarion cesari Shafaie, Pekár & Ortiz, 2025b: 1861, f. 19A-D, 24M-O, 25P, 26P, 27L (mf)

References

Déjean, S. (2016). Zodarion cesari Pekár et al., 2011 (Araneae, Zodariidae) espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France, découverte en Corse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 3: 14-15. -- Show included taxa

Pekár, S., Cardoso, P., Barriga, J. C. & Carvalho, J. C. (2011). Update to the zodariid spider fauna of the Iberian peninsula and Madeira (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 2814: 19-32. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2814.1.2 -- Show included taxa

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(25-28): 1825-1875. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2498047 -- 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
2025-06-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie et al., 2025
2025-06-11	Species distribution update	Shafaie et al., 2025	Old value
2025-06-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie, Pekár & Ortiz, 2025b
2016-10-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Déjean, 2016
2016-10-09	Species distribution update	Déjean, 2016	Old value