Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes aerosus Charitonov, 1946

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis long, tapering. Embolus filiform. Prosoma length: 2.3 mm.

Female

Prosoma length: 2.7 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete), Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
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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.

Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
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

Charitonov D E (1946) New forms of spiders of the USSR. Izvestija Estedvenno-Nauchnogo Instituta pri Molotovskom Gosudarstvennom Universitete imeni M. Gor'kogo 12: 19-32 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

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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
17-12-2015 Image insert
10-12-2013 Image insert