Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes fuscorufus  (Simon, 1878)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown, with median line of black bristles, clypeus narrow. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum black, covered with black bristles, scutum covering 1/4 of opisthosoma length, venter brown-grey.

Body length male: 4.0-7.2 mm
Female

Epigynal plate wider than long. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5.7-7.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France (Corsica), Italy
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Marinaro, 1968) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1933) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Caporiacco L di (1933) Araneidi. In: Spedizione scientifica all'oasi di Cufra (Marzo-Luglio 1931). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 56: 311-340 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

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

Senglet A (2004) Copulatory mechanisms in Zelotes, Drassyllus and Trachyzelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), with additional faunistic and taxonomic data on species from southwest Europe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 77: 87-119 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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
09-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert