araneae - Zelotes exiguus

Description

Male palp with hardly articulated embolic division. Embolus not visible. Epigyne without longitudinal cuticular bar, hardly sclerotised. Body colour grey-brown, coxa and tarsus slightly lighter. Opisthosoma with brown scuticula.

Body length male: 2.5-3 mm
Body length female: 2.1-3 mm

Additional information

In dry habitats (open forests and rocky heathland).

Distribution

Presence

No data

Distribution comment: Turkey: deleted (misident. per Indzhov in litt.)

Global distribution (WSC 2022): Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Korea, Japan

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Miller & Buchar 1977)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini 2000)

Pedipalp
(Miller & Buchar 1977)

Epigyne
(Miller & Buchar 1977)

Vulva
(Miller & Buchar 1977)

Vulva
(Jézéquel 1962a)

Vulva
(Akpınar et al. 2016)

Distribution List

Austria (no references) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Montenegro (no references) ||| North Macedonia (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Norway (Farlund, 2019) ||| Poland (no references) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Serbia (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Ukraine (no references) |||

References

Akpınar A, Varol M İ, El-Hennawy H K (2016) New records to the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Eutichuridae, Gnaphosidae). Serket 15: 41-43

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/

Jézéquel J F (1962a) Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneida, Labidognatha, Drassodidae "Gnaphosidae") de la fauna française. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (Zool. Anz.) 25(Suppl.): 519-532

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]

Miller F, Buchar J (1977) Neue Spinnenarten aus den Gattungen Zelotes Distel und Haplodrassus Chamberlin (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 1974: 157-171

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

Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2

27-07-2020	Image insert
27-11-2018	Distribution update	Detail
14-06-2016	Distribution update	Detail
26-02-2014	Distribution update	Detail

Zelotes exiguus (Müller & Schenkel, 1895)