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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes potanini Schenkel, 1963

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.92 mm.

Body length male: 4.7 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown. Prosoma length: 2.1 mm. Sternum light red-brown. Legs dark brown, tarsi (especially from the anterior legs) somewhat lighter. Opisthosoma grey-brown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Central   (Alekseenko, 2019) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Alekseenko Y G (2019) [Zoogeographical analysis of araneophauna of steppous plots of the Ulyanovsk region with data on area expansing of several species]. Izvestiya of Saratov University (N. S.) Chemistry Biology Ecology 19: 223-229 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1995) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 4. New records of spider species (excluding Linyphiidae) from the Urals (Arachnida Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 4(1): 71-91 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Platnick N I, Song D X (1986) A review of the Zelotine spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of China. American Museum Novitates 2848: 1-22 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

Schenkel E (1963) Ostasiatische Spinnen aus dem Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (A, Zool.) 25: 1-481 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
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