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

"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.

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 (13.2.2026) 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

Updates
19-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
02-11-2020 Image insert
20-04-2018 Image insert
20-04-2018 Distribution update Detail
06-12-2016 Datasheet update Detail