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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes devotus Grimm, 1982

Description

Tibial apophysis straight, reaching base of embolus. Epigyne with anterior fold of cuticula transverse to posterior fold of cuticula. Prosoma brown-black. Opisthosoma brown-black.

Body length male: 4-5 mm
Body length female: 4.7-5.3 mm
Additional information

alpine region, 2000-3000 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Austria, Italy)
Phenology
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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) ||| France  Removed (Grimm, 1985; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Grimm, 1985) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1999) |||
References

Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32 pdf

Grimm U (1982) Sibling species in the Zelotes subterraneus group and description of 3 new species of Zelotes from Europe (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 25: 169-183 pdf

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

Hänggi A (1999) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 2. Neunachweise von 1993 bis 1999 Archnologische Mitteilungen 18: 17-37 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Thaler K (1989) Das Männchen von Zelotes devotus Grimm (Arachnida: Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 62: 363-366 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-04-2025 Image insert
05-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
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