Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   133 species

Zelotes fulvopilosus (Simon, 1878)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown. Prosoma length: 2.18-2.35 mm, prosoma width: 1.74-1.86 mm. Legs brown, tarsi somewhat lighter. Opisthosoma black, scutum occupying 35% of opisthosoma length.

Body length male: 5.33 mm
Female

Prosoma length:1.94-2.25 mm, prosoma width: 0.80-0.94 mm.

Body length female: 5.25-7.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France
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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Breitling R (2018) Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lecigne S (2018b) Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 59-99 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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

Wunderlich J (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112 pdf

Updates
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
30-11-2023 Image insert
20-09-2018 Image insert
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03-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
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