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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   128 species

Zelotes occidentalis  Melic, 2014

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047404

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Description
Male

Prosoma, chelicerae and sternum brown, suffused with black. Prosoma length: 2.25-3.0 mm. Legs dark, metatarsi and tarsi somewhat lighter. Opisthosoma dark grey, almost black, without pattern, scutum covers slightly more than the anterior third of the opisthosoma. Some specimens with lighter colouration.

Body length male: 5.20-7.50 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.05-3.10 mm. Colouration as in males, but darker. Prosoma reddish brown and opisthosoma almost black.

Body length female: 4.75-9.50 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Melic 2014)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Melic 2014)

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male Tip of bulbus, dorsal view
(Melic 2014)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Melic 2014)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Melic 2014)

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.

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Melic A (2014) Notas sobre Gnaphosidae ibéricos (Araneae): descripción de dos nuevas especies del género Zelotes Gistel, 1848. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 25: 9-14 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-02-2015 Image insert
26-02-2015 Distribution update Detail