Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes harmeron Levy, 2009

Description

Overall colouration black. Male dorsal scutum hardly visible. Small eyes. Chelicerae with 3-4 teeth on promargin and 1-2 teeth on retromargin.

Body length male: 6.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Iran
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Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Naumova & Genchev, 2022) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| North Macedonia   (Matevski et al., 2022b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar et al., 2010; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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) 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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Levy G (2009) New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa 2066: 1-49 pdf

Matevski D, Deltshev C, Cvetkovska-Gjorgjievska A, Lazarov S, Prelić D (2022b) Contribution to the knowledge of Araneae (Arachnida) in Skopje valley, North Macedonia. Macedonian Journal of Ecology and Environment 24: 65-72 pdf

Naumova M, Genchev V (2022) Review of the spiders, pseudoscorpions and scorpions in the region of Plovdiv, S Bulgaria (Arachnida: Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones & Scorpiones). In: Mollov, I., Georgiev, D. & Todorov, O. (eds.) Faunistic diversity of the city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), volume 2 - vertebrates & invertebrates. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Plovdiv, Supplement 2, pp. 83-110. pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

Seyyar O, Demir H, Aktaş M (2010) A new species and two new records of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Turkey. Archives of Biological Science Belgrade 62: 449-453 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Dimitrov D, Weiss I, Alimohammadi S, Rafiei-Jahed R, Esyunin S L, Moradmand M, Chatzaki M, Marusik Y M (2020c) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII. Arachnology 18: 569-591 pdf

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