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

Zodarion nitidum (Audouin, 1826)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026102

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Described:

Distribution: North Africa, Middle East

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f (B. 445, t. 14) of Zodarion cambridgei - (Levy, 1992)
Holotype: f (presumably lost) - (Levy, 1992)
Holotype: m (presumably lost) of Enyo longipes - (Levy, 1992)

Taxonomic References

Enyo nitida Audouin, 1826: 350, pl. 3, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Enyo longipes Audouin, 1826: 351, pl. 3, f. 8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064918]

Clotho nitida Walckenaer, 1837: 639

Clotho longipes Walckenaer, 1837: 640

Argus longipes Walckenaer, 1841: 347 (m; f pl. 16, f. 6A-D see Zodarion gallicum)

Zodarion nitidum Simon, 1893a: 432, f. 403-407

Metargus longipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902d: 8

Zodarion nitidum Denis, 1937a: 6, pl. 1, f. 1 (f, S of Zodarion longipes)

Zodarion cambridgei Denis, 1938c: 387 (new name for f believed misidentified as Z. nitidum by Denis, 1937 and O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055098]

Zodarium nitidum Bonnet, 1959: 4979 (unjustified emendation)

Zodarion nitidum Denis, 1962f: 31, f. 2 (f)

Zodarion nitidum Levy, 1992: 86, f. 53-61 (mf, S of Zodarion cambridgei and Z. nicki [revalidated by Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 106])

Zodarion nitidum Zamani & Marusik, 2021b: 188, f. 28A-C (m)

Zodarion nitidum Zamani & Marusik, 2022b: 162, f. 11A-C (m)

Zodarion nitidum Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 41, f. 29A-D, 30A-F, 31A-F (mf)

References

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [[for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430]] -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1959). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (5me partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 4231-5058. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1937a). Contribution à l'étude des araignées du genre Zodarion Walckenaer. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1938c). Sur la synonymie de quelques araignées. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 62: 379-389. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962f). Araignées recueillies en 1961 par la Mission Belge au Tibesti. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 65: 29-32. -- 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, F. O. (1902d). A revision of the genera of Araneae or spiders with reference to their type species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 9(49): 5-20. doi: 10.1080/00222930208678611 -- 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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[plates in second pdf]] -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837]] -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021b). Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species. ZooKeys 1035: 145-193. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1035.65767 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022b). New taxonomic considerations in Zodariellum Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1968 (Araneae: Zodariidae), with notes on the presence of cymbial diverticulum in different zodariid genera. Zootaxa 5178(2): 161-177. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.2.3 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-09-20	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Zodarion nicki Strand, 1914
2025-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025
2022-08-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2022b
2021-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2021b
2020-06-23	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Zodarion fazanicum Denis, 1938