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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes occultus Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003

Description

Prosoma dark brown. Legs: femora dark brown, metatarsi dark yellow, tarsi brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, with scutum.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe, Urals)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Tuneva & Ponomarev, 2019; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

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

Ponomarev A V, Khnykin A S (2013) Spiders (Aranei) of Volgograd sity and its environs. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 2013(4): 109-136 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

Tuneva T K, Ponomarev A V (2019) First description of the female Zelotes occultus Tuneva et Esyunin, 2003 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) with data on the distribution of the species. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 445-447 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
26-08-2020 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2019 Image insert
24-09-2015 Distribution update Detail