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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes manius (Simon, 1878)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028294

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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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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Simon 1914)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Breitling 2020)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Bulbus, apical view
(Senglet 2004)

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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)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)

Distribution List
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 (20.5.2026) 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