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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   133 species

Zelotes metellus (Roewer, 1928)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028304

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Description
Male

Prosoma brown. Prosoma length: 1.6-1.85 mm, prosoma width: 0.59-0.77 mm. Legs brown, tarsi and metatarsi lighter. Opisthosoma black, scutum occupying 1/5 of opisthosoma length.

Body length male: 2.9-4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.2 mm, prosoma width: 0.66 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.5-4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Turkey refers to Z. prishutovae, see Kovblyuk et al., 2009
Global distribution (WSC 2025): France, Italy, Albania, Greece to Iran, Israel, Russia (Europe)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Senglet 2011)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2011)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2011)

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male Pedipalp, apical view
(Senglet 2011)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2017c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2017c)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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female Vulva
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Senglet 2011)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2011)

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female Vulva
(Mazzia et al. 2018)

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.

Albania   (Naumova et al., 2016b) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (Mazzia et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Lami et al., 2023) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Kovblyuk et al., 2009; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Mikhailov, 2022) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

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

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2003) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) from Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. III. Zelotes and allied genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110: 45-89 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Seyyar O, Demir H, Topçu A (2009) New taxonomic and faunistic data on the gnaphosid spiders of Turkey (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 18: 169-187 pdf

Lami F, Burgio G, Magagnoli S, Sommaggio D, Horváth R, Nagy D D, Masetti A (2023) Ground-dwelling arthropods as biodiversity indicators in maize agroecosystems of northern Italy. Ecological Indicators 152(110352): 1-9 pdf

Mazzia C, Cornic J-F, Capowiez Y, Bounias-Delacour A (2018) Zelotes metellus Roewer, 1928, nouvelle espèce pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 5: 14-17 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2022) Progress in the study of the spider fauna (Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring regions: a 2020 update. Invertebrate Zoology 19: 295-304, Supplements 1.01-1.15, 2.01-2.24. pdf

Naumova M, Hristovski S, Hristov G H (2016b) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68: 503-511 pdf

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. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Prokopenko E V, Shmatko, V Y (2017c) New and interesting records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from the southeastern part of the Russian Plain. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88: 103-117 pdf

Senglet A (2011) New species in the Zelotes tenuis-group and new or little known species in other Zelotes groups (Gnaphosidae, Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 513-559 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

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