Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes mundus  (Kulczyński, 1897)

Description
Male

Pedipalp: embolus short, thick and only weakly bent. Prosoma length: 1.48 - 1.75 mm, prosoma width: 1.13-1.38 mm. Colouration: dark brown to black, metatarsi and tarsi lighter. Opisthosoma with shiny brown scutum, covering approx. one third of opisthosoma length.

Female

Prosoma length: 1.65-1.82 mm, prosoma width: 1.3-1.38 mm. Colouration as in males.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Italy doubtful, therefore removed (Pantini & Isaia 2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, China
adult in summer
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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.

Austria   (Bauchhenss et al., 1997) ||| Czechia   (Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Schmidt & Hänggi, 2007) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Romania   (Bauchhenss et al., 1997) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Dudić et al., 2013) ||| Slovakia   (Krajča et al., 2004) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Bauchhenss E, Weiss I, Toth F (1997) Neufunde von Zelotes mundus (Kulczyński, 1897) mit Beschreibung des Weibchens. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 13: 43-47 pdf

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

Dudić B D, Tomić V T, Sivčev I, Büchs W, Sivčev L, Graora D, Gotlin-Čuljak T (2013) New data on spider fauna from northern Serbia. Archives of Biological Sciences 65: 1669-1673 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1997) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 6. New data on the taxonomy and faunistics of gnaphosid spiders of the south Urals (Arachnida Aranei Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(3/4): 105-111 pdf

Krajča A, Krumpálová Z, Krumpál M (2004) First records of the epigeic spider Zelotes mundus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Slovakia. Biologia, Bratislava 59/Suppl. 15: 33-34 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Polchaninova N Y, Prokopenko E V (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta (Suppl.) 2: 1-268 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V (2017) Pavouci České republiky. Spiders of the Czech Republic. Pavouk 42: 2-4 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Schmidt M H, Hänggi A (2007) Zelotes mundus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the Camargue: a continental species reaches the western Mediterranean coast. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 27-29 pdf

Tuneva T K, Esyunin S L (2003a) A review of the Gnaphosidae fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 3. New species and new records, chiefly from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 11: 223-234 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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