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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes messinai Di Franco, 1995

Description
Body length male: 5.92-6.29 mm
Body length female: 4.81-5.18 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Sicily)
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"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.

Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Di Franco F (1995a) Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) di Cava Grande (Siracusa, Sicilia). Animalia 21: 117-123 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

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