Zelotes callidus (Simon, 1878)
Description
Male
Embolus short, embolar base with strong prolateral hook, retrolateral tibial apophysis shorter than tibia. Prosoma yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum blackish, covered with black bristles, venter whitish, with black hairs.
Body length male: 6-8.4 mmFemale
Anterior epigynal margin much narrower than the epigynal plate length, both anterior anchor pockets sometimes fused to form a single bow. Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 5.7-6.8 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp in detail
(Bosmans & Van Keer 2012a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 2012a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 2012a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Senglet 2004)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gaymard & Lecigne 2018)
Apical part of bulbus
(Simon 1914)
Tibial apophysis
(Simon 1914)
Epigyne
(Di Franco 1997a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(L. Koch 1882)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 2012a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Epigyne
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva
(Di Franco 1997a)
Vulva
(Bosmans & Van Keer 2012a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
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.
References
Beladjal L, Bouseksou S, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Alioua Y, Bosmans R (2025) First exhaustive catalog of spiders of Algeria (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5598: 1-185 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
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)
Bosmans R, Van Keer J (2012a) On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 5-16
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Denis J (1952d) Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. I. Les Zelotes du Maroc. Revue Française d'Entomologie 19: 113-126
Di Franco F (1997a) Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni dell'Italia centrale. Gli Gnaphosidae dei Monti della Tolfa (Lazio) (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 29: 253-266
Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Koch L (1882) Zoologische Ergebnisse von excursionen auf den Balearen. II: Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 625-678
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47
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
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 10-08-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 20-06-2024 | Image insert | |
| 17-06-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 17-06-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 14-07-2022 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 17-12-2018 | Image insert | |
| 30-09-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 25-06-2013 | Image insert | |
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| 19-03-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |