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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   129 species

Zelotes zellensis  Grimm, 1982

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028446

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: tibial apophysis straight. Embolus long, S-shaped. Opisthosoma with large, dark brown scutum.

Body length male: 4.0-5.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with lateral cuticular ridges, distance between ridges anteriorly: 1/5 of distance between ear-shaped bulges. Prosoma brown-black. Legs brighter than prosoma. Opisthosoma brown-black.

Body length female: 4.5-5.6 mm
Additional information

In dwarf shrub heath, under stones in the daytime, in the Alps up to 1800 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The record from Bulgaria at about 200m a.s.l. should be verified
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Alps (Germany, Austria, Italy)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Trotta 2023)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Trotta 2023)

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male Embolic tooth, dorsal view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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female Epigyne
(Pantini et al. 2020b)

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female Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)

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female Epigyne
(Trotta 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Muster & Thaler 2000)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pantini et al. 2020b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Trotta 2023)

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.

Austria   (Grimm, 1985) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Dimitrov, 1993) ||| Germany   (Muster & Thaler, 2000) ||| Italy   (Pantini et al., 2020b) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Dimitrov D (1993) New and [rare] spiders (Araneae) to the fauna of Bulgaria. Proceedings of the Second National Scientific Conference of Entomology, Sofia: 73-76 pdf

Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318 pdf

Muster C, Thaler K (2000) Das Männchen von Zelotes zellensis Grimm (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 107: 579-589 pdf

Pantini P, Mazzoleni F, Gobbi M, Pedrotti L (2020b) Ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) di interesse biogeografico e conservazionistico nel parco nazionale dello Stelvio (Italia). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 33: 23-53 pdf

Trotta A (2023) Spiders from Liguria (NW Italy): new and confirmed records (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of Environmental and Life Sciences 5: 44-77 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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