Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes talpinus  (L. Koch, 1872)

Description

Embolus long and bent, with sickle-shaped apophysis. Epigyne in anterior epigyne area with parallel, lateral cuticular folds. Prosoma black-brown to black. Legs brighter than prosoma. Femur I with bright spot. Opisthosoma black-brown to black.

Body length male: 4.7-5.1 mm
Body length female: 5.7-6.3 mm
Additional information

up to 2000 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Not on the Balkans and presumably not in Turkey, see Z. olympi (cf. Chatzaki 2010b)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western to Central Europe, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Coşar et al., 2018; Danışman et al., 2024; Chatzaki, 2010b) |||
References

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

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

Chatzaki M (2010b) New data on the least known zelotines (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of Greece and adjacent regions. Zootaxa 2564: 43-61 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Kartaler M (2018) Three new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 6(2017): 34-38 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

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Jézéquel J F (1962a) Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneida, Labidognatha, Drassodidae "Gnaphosidae") de la fauna française. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (Zool. Anz.) 25(Suppl.): 519-532 pdf

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

Kovblyuk M M (2005b) Little-known species of the genus Zelotes (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) from Crimea. Vestnik Zoologii 39: 3-14 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

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
21-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2022 Distribution insert Detail
13-02-2018 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert