Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes manius (Simon, 1878)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis strong and short, palpal tibia shorter than wide. Prosoma dark black-brown, with black hairs. Opisthosoma black, with black hairs, scutum longer than 1/3 of opisthosoma length.

Body length male: 5.6 mm
Female

Anterior anchor pockets widely separated, shape of anterior part of epigynal plate variable. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5.7-7.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: North Macedonia should be confirmed
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) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (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 (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
11-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
26-07-2020 Image insert
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert