Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1968
Description
Male
Male unknown.
Female
Prosoma length: 1.7-2.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.7 mm. Colouration dark brown. Large eyes. Chelicerae with 3-4 teeth on promargin and 0-1 tooth on retromargin.
Body length female: 3.6-4.9 mmDistribution
Figures
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 2009)
Epigyne
(Narro-Martín & Cabanillas 2021)
Epigyne
(Narro-Martín & Cabanillas 2021)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Epigynal plate
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Di Franco 1994b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 2009)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Narro-Martín & Cabanillas 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Narro-Martín & Cabanillas 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
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.
References
Barrientos J A, Silva A, Patanita M I, Benhadi-Marín J, Melic A, Santos S A P (2020c) Diversidad de arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) en olivares del distrito de Beja (Portugal) en diferentes sistemas de cultivo. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 212-224 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Di Franco F (1994b) Nuovi dati sulle specie di Zelotes del Maghreb (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): considerazioni morfologiche e descrizione di Zelotes lagrecai n. sp. Animalia 19: 213-225
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Levy G (2009) New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa 2066: 1-49
Marinaro J-Y (1968) Les araignées d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae à peigne metatarsal d'Algérie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 92: 687-704
Narro-Martín A J, Cabanillas D (2021) First record of Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967 (Arachnida, Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in Spain. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 45: 135-138
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2