Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes minous Chatzaki, 2003

Description
Male

Small spiders of light brown colour. Posterior median eyes closer to posterior lateral eyes than to each other, smaller than the rest of eyes, round. Palp: Tibial apophysis short. Tegulum broadly membranous. Embolar base bulging, with a sclerotized dorsal process. Embolus short, directed along retrolateral side of tegulum, rising from dorsal end of embolar base. Prosoma length: 1.5-2.1 mm, prosoma width: 0.9-1.6 mm.

Body length male: 2.9-4.8 mm
Female

Small spiders of light brown colour. Posterior median eyes closer to posterior lateral eyes than to each other, smaller than the rest of eyes, round. Epigyne: Margin continuous. Median plate tongue-like, its anterior ends curved. Introductory ducts short. Spermathecae large, globular. prosoma length: 1.7-1.9 mm, prosoma width: 1.3-1.6 mm.

Body length female: 4.4-4.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete, Karpathos)
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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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2003) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) from Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. III. Zelotes and allied genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110: 45-89 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 update Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail