Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes similis  (Kulczyński, 1887)

Description

Male palp with keel, distally with distinct edge. Epigyne with ± straight lateral cuticular ridge. Prosoma sandy, black-brown to black. Opisthosoma black-brown to black with dark brown scuticula.

Body length male: 6.4-6.9 mm
Body length female: 6.7-10.2 mm
Additional information

on warm slopes with dwarf shrub heath and in woodland with scarce vegetation up to 1500 m, overwinters as adult

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Hungary: the know records are situated in nowadays' Romania
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Central Europe to Ukraine and Turkey
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2013; Grapci-Kotori et al., 2022) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014; Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna & Yanul, 2023) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Braun R (1963) Einige neue und einige zweifelhafte Spinnenarten aus Österreich (Arachnida, Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 44: 111-128 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Grapci-Kotori L, Geci D, Naumova M, Ibrahimi H, Bilalli A, Musliu M, Gashi A, Kasumaj E (2022) Spiders from Sharr Mountain – new faunistic data (Arachnida: Araneae). Natura Croatica 31: 335-350 pdf

Hirna A, Yanul V (2023) On some rare and newly recorded spider species for the Ukrainian Carpathians (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 38-43 pdf

Kolosváry G, Loksa I (1944) VIII. Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna Siebenbürgens. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Fauna Hungarica 1: 11-28 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2013) Spiders (Araneae) from Albania and Kosovo in the collection of Carl Friedrich Roewer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 17-26 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

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