Zelotes aurantiacus Miller, 1967
Description
Male palp with bent tip of keel. Embolus short and robust. Epigyne with pointed S-shaped cuticular fold, running back posteriorly. Prosoma orange-yellow, with black hairs. Femur and tarsus brown, other leg segments black-brown. Opisthosoma grey, with 3 pairs of bright spots and small grey scuticula.
Body length male: 4-5 mmBody length female: 4.1 mm
Additional information
Open forests, calcareous steppes
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Miller 1967)
Pedipalp
(Miller 1967)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2019a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2019a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grimm 1985)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kielhorn et al. 2026)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Kielhorn et al. 2026)
Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)
Epigyne
(Kielhorn et al. 2026)
Vulva
(Miller 1967)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2019a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2019a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)
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.
References
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Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486
Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318
Kielhorn K-H, Förster T, Grimm H (2026) Beiträge zur Fauna des Kyffhäusergebirges. Teil XXI: Die Spinnen des Kyffhäusers (Arachnida, Araneae). Thüringer Faunistische Abhandlungen 30: 39-56
Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298
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Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
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Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2019a) A review of spiders of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 of the subterraneus-group (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15: 3-22
Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html
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WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2