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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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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.

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-10-2025 Distribution insert Detail
11-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
23-04-2015 Image insert
06-05-2014 Image insert