Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes orenburgensis Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003

Description

Prosoma and chelicerae dark brown. Sternum dark reddish-brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma grey, with Scutum.

Body length male: 5.2-6.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2003a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk, 2005b) |||
References

Kovblyuk M M (2005b) Little-known species of the genus Zelotes (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) from Crimea. Vestnik Zoologii 39: 3-14 pdf

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

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

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 (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 Image insert
21-08-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail