Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes khostensis Kovblyuk & Ponomarev, 2008

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: replaces the European Z. erebeus in the East (Rozwałka et al., 2016a)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran
Phenology
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 male  female
Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Kovblyuk M M, Ponomarev A V (2008) New and interesting spiders (Aranei: Agelenidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Nemesiidae, Thomisidae) from the west Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4: 143-154 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

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

Pantini P, Mazzoleni F (2018) I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69 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

Rozwałka R, Rutkowski T, Sienkiewicz P, Zawal A (2016a) Zelotes erebeus (Thorell, 1871) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Poland and its distribution in Europe. Entomologica Fennica 27: 1-7 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

Zamani A, Dimitrov D, Weiss I, Alimohammadi S, Rafiei-Jahed R, Esyunin S L, Moradmand M, Chatzaki M, Marusik Y M (2020c) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII. Arachnology 18: 569-591 pdf

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