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

Zodarion scutatum Wunderlich, 1980

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026121

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Described:

Distribution: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (30594) [not 30396] - (Wunderlich, 1980f)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (30595) [not 30397] - (Wunderlich, 1980f)
Paratype: Anton Polenec Private Collection, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4m 2f - (Wunderlich, 1980f)

Taxonomic References

Zodarion n.sp. Polenec, 1978a: 372, f. 8 (m; here per Wunderlich, 1980f: 113)

Zodarion scutatum Wunderlich, 1980f: 113, f. 1-6 (Dmf) Original description

Zodarion scutatum Bosmans, 2009: 226, f. 18-19, 53 (mf)

Zodarion scutatum Deltshev et al., 2022: 255, f. 57-60 (m)

Zodarion scutatum Geci et al., 2025a: 286, f. 12D-G (m)

References

Bosmans, R. (2009). Revision of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833, part III. South East Europe and Turkey (Araneae: Zodariidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 211-295. doi: 10.5169/seals-786968 -- Show included taxa

Deltshev, C., Naumova, M., Matevski, D. & Indzhov, S. (2022). New taxonomic and faunistic data on the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in the Balkans, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5174(3): 247-261. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.3.3 -- Show included taxa

Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A. & Musliu, M. (2025a). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Western Balkans. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11(2): 269-289. doi: 10.61186/jibs.11.2.269 -- Show included taxa

Polenec, A. (1978a). Zusammensetzung und Besonderheiten der Epigäischen Spinnenfauna des Seslerio-Ostryetum am Berge Slavnik (1028 m) (Nord-Istrien, Jugoslawien). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 42: 367-377. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1980f). Drei Arten der Gattung Zodarion Walckenaer 1847 aus Nordjugoslawien (Arachnida: Araneae: Zodariidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 61: 113-117. -- 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
2025-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Geci et al., 2025a
2025-03-25	Species distribution update	Geci et al., 2025a	Old value
2022-08-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Deltshev et al., 2022
2022-08-24	Species distribution update	Deltshev et al., 2022	Old value
2019-02-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Polenec, 1978a