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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   128 species

Zelotes sardus  (Canestrini, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028376

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: Tibial apophysis strong and relatively short, tibia wider than long. Prosoma length: 2.8 mm, Prosoma dark brown. Opisthosoma blackish, covered with black hairs. Scutum longer than 1/3 of optisthosoma length.

Female

Epigyne longer than wide, anterior margin sinuous, anterior anchor pockets large. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5-7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: France (mainland): doubtful after Caria et al. (2021)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retro-apical view
(Senglet 2004)

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female Epigyne
(Di Franco & Pantini 2000)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)

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female Vulva
(Di Franco & Pantini 2000)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)

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.

France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Caria M, Pantini P, Alamanni F, Ancona C, Cillo D, Bazzato E (2021) New records and interesting data for the Sardinian spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 53: 321-331 pdf

Di Franco F, Pantini P (2000) Gnaphosidae dell'Isola di Capraia (Arcipelago Toscano) (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 477-484 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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
05-12-2021 Datasheet update Detail
25-06-2013 Datasheet update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert