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

Zodarion cyrenaicum Denis, 1935

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026053

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Described:

Distribution: Libya, Egypt, Israel

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Syntype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy 1m 1f - (Levy, 1992)

Taxonomic References

Zodarion cyrenaicum Denis, 1935b: 100, pl. 1, f. 1-3 (Dmf) Original description

Zodarion cyrenaicum Levy, 1992: 101, f. 103-107 (mf)

Zodarion cyrenaicum Shafaie et al., 2025: 1904, f. 8D-F (m)

Zodarion cyrenaicum Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 59, f. 43A-B, 44A-D, 45A-D, 46A-E (mf)

References

Denis, J. (1935b). Sur deux araignées de Cyrénaique. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 57: 100-104, pl. 1. -- 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

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

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

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
2025-06-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie et al., 2025