title: Zora alpina Kulczyński, 1915 (Araneae: Miturgidae): description of the male, redescription of the female.
abstract: Zora Koch, 1847 is a small genus distributed in the Holarctic region. The genus comprises 16 species, 14 of them distributed in the Palaearctic region and two from the Neartic (World Spider Catalog 2016). The European fauna includes 11 species (Nentwig et al. 2016), 8 of which are present in Italy (Pantini & Isaia 2016). Zora has historically been placed in several different families, but is now in the Miturgidae Simon, 1886 following the phylogenetic analyses of Ramirez (2014).
authors.affiliation: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Piazza Cittadella, 10. I-24129 Bergamo, Italy.; Email: federico.gato.mazzoleni@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mazzoleni
authors.affiliation: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Piazza Cittadella, 10. I-24129 Bergamo, Italy.; Email: ppantini@comune.bg.it.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pantini
authors.affiliation: Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Via De Simoni, 42 23032 Bormio (SO, Italy).; Email: luca.pedrotti@libero.it.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pedrotti
authors.affiliation: MUSE-Museo delle Scienze, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I-38123, Trento (Italy).; Email: mauro.gobbi@muse.it.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gobbi
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development