Civizelotes caucasius (L. Koch, 1866)
Description
Epigyne sclerotised only anteriorly. Femur I with bright spot. Opisthosoma with dark brown scuticula, brown-grey to black-brown, legs slightly brighter.
Body length male: 4.4-6.5 mmBody length female: 5.4-6.3 mm
Additional information
in dry and sunny locations
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Levy 1998c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Miller 1967)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1998c)
Pedipalp
(Miller 1967)
Pedipalp
(Levy 1998c)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Epigyne
(Levy 1998c)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Epigyne
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Miller 1967)
Vulva
(Jézéquel 1962a)
Vulva
(Noflatscher 1993)
Vulva
(Levy 1998c)
Vulva
(Lan & Zhang 2017)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Distribution List
References
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Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Jézéquel J F (1962a) Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneida, Labidognatha, Drassodidae "Gnaphosidae") de la fauna française. Verh dtsch zool Ges (Zool Anz) 25(Suppl.): 519-532
Lan Q, Zhang F (2017) Redescription species Civizelotes caucasius, representing newly recorded of the genus Civizelotes from China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26: 65-70
Levy G (1998c) The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassylus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 93-158
Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Miller F (1967) Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Acta Sc Nat Brno 1: 251-298
Naumova M, Hristovski S, Hristov G H (2016b) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68: 503-511
Noflatscher M-T (1993) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Südtirols - IV: Epigäische Spinnen am Vinschgauer Sonnenberg. Ber Nat - Med Ver Innsbruck 80: 273-294
Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online Catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other Arachnid Orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Senglet A (2004) Copulatory mechanisms in Zelotes, Drassyllus and Trachyzelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), with additional faunistic and taxonomic data on species from southwest Europe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 77: 87-119
World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2