Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878)
Description
Male
Prosoma yellow-brown. Prosoma length: 1.86-2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.4-1.46 mm. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum blackish, venter grey.
Body length male: 4.7-4.8 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.25 mm, prosoma width: 1.75 mm. Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 5.2-5.7 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Senglet 2011)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2011)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2011)
Pedipalp, apical view
(Senglet 2011)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Picchi 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Shmatko 2020b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Özden et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Özden et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Özden et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seyyar & Demir 2020c)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nuruyeva et al. 2026)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nuruyeva et al. 2026)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Senglet 2011)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Seyyar & Demir 2020c)
Epigyne
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2011)
Epigyne
(Picchi 2020)
Epigyne
(Özden et al. 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2011)
Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Senglet 2011)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Özden et al. 2023)
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Aliyeva A R (2026) Nine new records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 12: 133-143
Özden Ö, Coşar İ, Kunt K B, Danışman T (2023) Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), a new record for spider fauna of Cyprus. Acta Zoologica Cypria 1: 26-30
Picchi M S (2020) Spiders (Araneae) of olive groves and adjacent semi-natural habitats from central Italy. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 1-11
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.
Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2020b) New species and new records of spiders (Aranei) in the south of Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 299-309
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
Seyyar O, Demir H (2020c) Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new spider record from Turkey. Serket 17: 133-135
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
Varol M İ, Akpınar A (2018) Two new records for genus Zelotes from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 7: 227-229
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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