Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes femellus  (L. Koch, 1866)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown. Retromargin of chelicerae with 2 teeth. Legs with scopulae on tarsi and metatarsi II and II. Opisthosoma blackish, scutum covering 1/3 of opisthosoma length.

Body length male: 3.5-6.5 mm
Female

Epigyne long and narrow. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 6-8.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Crimea based on a misidentification per Kovblyuk et al., 2013c
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Southern Europe
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.

Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2013) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Ukraine  Removed (Kovblyuk et al., 2013c) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Di Franco F (1989b) Una nuova specie di Zelotes di Sicilia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Animalia 15: 65-74 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Marusik Y M, Omelko M M (2013c) On four poorly known species of spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae and Lycosidae) described by T. Thorell from Crimea. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65: 423-427 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

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). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

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 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
25-11-2014 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Datasheet update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert