Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Description
Body colouration black. Chelicerae: promargin with 2-3 teeth, retromargin with 0-1 tooth.
Body length male: 3.8-5.8 mmBody length female: 4.2-7.3 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2022a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2022a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Abdalrazzaq & Najim 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Abdalrazzaq & Najim 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Abdalrazzaq & Najim 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Bulbus, apical view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Bulbus, dorso-retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Epigyne
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Epigyne
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Epigyne
(Baert et al. 2023)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 2011a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Danışman & Erol 2022)
Vulva, ventral view
(Danışman & Erol 2022)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Baert et al. 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2025a)
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
Abdalrazzaq R K, Najim S A (2024) Two new records of gnaphosid spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from eastern Al-Hammar marsh south of Iraq. Serket 20: 141-146 
Abdel-Ghani D M A, Hassan F M, Sallam G M E (2023) Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20: 26-38
Baert L, Maelfait J-P, Desender K, Hendrickx F, Dekoninck W, Berthet M, Bouckaert K, Caudron J, Leclercq M (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Danışman T, Erol Y (2022) First report of Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Turkey. Serket 18: 349-352
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
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
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
Kaltsas D, Panayiotou E, Chatzaki M, Mylonas M (2014) Ground spider assemblages (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) along an urban-rural gradient in the city of Heraklion, Greece. European Journal of Entomology 111: 59-67
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640
Zamani A, Enayatnia M, Mirshekar A, Mayvan M M, Kováč L, Marusik, Y M (2025a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XII. Zootaxa 5601: 1-45
Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2022a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IX. Arachnology 19: 358-384
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