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Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   127 species

Zelotes scrutatus  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028381

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Description
Male

Prosoma orange brown, slightly infuscated anteriorly and laterally, femora and often patellae of legs olivaceous black. Posterior median eyes less than 1 diameters apart. Chelicerae with 2 teeth on promargin. Prosoma length: 1.8 mm.

Body length male: 3.6-7.1 mm
Female

Clypeus equal to or less than diameter of anterior lateral eye. Vulva with anterior dark crescent. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Prosoma length: 2.0 mm.

Body length female: 4.6-7.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Canary Is., Africa to Central Asia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

species

male Bulbus, dorsal view
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

species

male Embolus
(Wunderlich 2011a)

species

male Palpal tibia, lateral view
(Wunderlich 2011a)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 2011a)

species

male Posterior eye row, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 2011a)

species

female Epigyne
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

species

female Vulva
(Chatzaki et al. 2003)

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   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar & Demir, 2010; Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

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

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

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

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 (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

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

Updates
21-11-2022 Distribution update Detail
21-11-2022 Distribution insert Detail
13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail