Zodariidae  Thorell, 1881 / Palaestina  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872   3 species

Palaestina expolita  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Description
Male

Prosoma medium brown with darker pattern of fine lines. Prosoma length: 1.25 mm. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma with dark brown-grey dorsal scutum, venter sclerotized, in front yellow, cream in posterior third.

Body length male: 2-3 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, dorsal scutum less strongly sclerotized. Prosoma length: 1.35 mm.

Body length female: 2-3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (incl. Crete), Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Lecigne, 2023) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Jocqué R (1991) A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160 pdf

Lecigne S (2023) New contribution to the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Kerkyra (Corfu) and update of the provisional checklist of species from the Ionian Island. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 38 (1, suppl.): 1-51 pdf

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 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-09-2023 Image insert
21-09-2023 Distribution update Detail
13-06-2021 Image insert
02-01-2021 Image insert