Zelotes fuscorufus (Simon, 1878)
Description
Male
Prosoma yellow-brown, with median line of black bristles, clypeus narrow. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum black, covered with black bristles, scutum covering 1/4 of opisthosoma length, venter brown-grey.
Body length male: 4.0-7.2 mmFemale
Epigynal plate wider than long. Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 5.7-7.8 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Simon 1914)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)
Tip of tibial apophysis
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)
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
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Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Caporiacco L di (1933) Araneidi. In: Spedizione scientifica all'oasi di Cufra (Marzo-Luglio 1931). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 56: 311-340
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Marinaro J-Y (1968) Les araignées d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae à peigne metatarsal d'Algérie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 92: 687-704
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
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
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2