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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes fuscorufus (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028214

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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 mm
Female

Epigynal plate wider than long. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5.7-7.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France (Corsica), Italy, Algeria, Libya
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Simon 1914)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Tip of tibial apophysis
(Simon 1914)

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female Epigyne
(Simon 1914)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Marinaro, 1968; Beladjal et al., 2025) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1933; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Beladjal L, Bouseksou S, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Alioua Y, Bosmans R (2025) First exhaustive catalog of spiders of Algeria (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5598: 1-185 pdf

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

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 pdf

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 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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

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 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

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-01-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert