Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   134 species

Zelotes erythrocephalus (Lucas, 1846)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma orangebraun, leicht eingeschnürt anterior und lateral. Femur und Patella aller Beine olivschwarz. Hintere Mittelaugen weniger als ein Durchmesser voneinander getrennt. Cheliceren mit 2 Zähnchen am Vorderrand. Prosomalänge: 1.8 mm.

Körperlänge Männchen: 3.6-7.1 mm
Weibchen

Clypeus gleich oder weniger hoch wie der Durchmesser der vorderen Seitenaugen. Cheliceren mit 3 Zähnchen am Vorderrand. Vulva mit dunklem anterioren Halbmond. Prosomalänge: 2.0 mm.

Körperlänge Weibchen: 4.6-7.6 mm
Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Spain, Italy (Sicily), Greece, North to South Africa, Cyprus, Turkey, Middle East, Central Asia
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Algeria   (Denis, 1937b; Marinaro, 1968; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Nicolosi et al., 2024) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Lecigne et al., 2025; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Barrientos et al., 2024c) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar & Demir, 2010; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
Literatur

Barrientos J A, De Mas E, Gavín-Centol M P, Pertegal C, Salazar B, Fenoy E, Balanzategui I, Mederos J, Montserrat M, Barranco P, Moya-Laraño J (2024c) Arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España); 2ª aportación. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 27-59 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2003) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) from Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. III. Zelotes and allied genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110: 45-89 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Denis J (1937b) On a collection of spiders from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106: 1027-1060 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Nicolosi G, Pantini P, Devincenzo U, Guariento L A, Italiano V, Zanca L, Sarà M, Isaia M (2024) New data on spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the islands of the Strait of Sicily (Southern Italy) with taxonomic notes on Poecilochroa loricata Kritscher, 1996 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and eight new records for Europe. The European Zoological Journal 91: 1009-1034 pdf

Ouakri N, Lecigne S, Abou Oualid J, Dugon M (2026) Spiders from the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of Souss-Massa region (Morocco), and descriptions of two new species (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 1051: 1-50 pdf

Seyyar O, Demir H (2010) New records of ground spiders from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Serket 12: 13-16 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

Wunderlich J (2011a) Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Heutige und fossile Spinnen. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640 pdf

Zamani A, Enayatnia M, Mirshekar A, Mayvan M M, Kováč L, Marusik, Y M (2025a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XII. Zootaxa 5601: 1-45 pdf

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