Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   132 species

Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1968

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Prosoma length: 1.7-2.2 mm, prosoma width: 1.2-1.7 mm. Colouration dark brown. Large eyes. Chelicerae with 3-4 teeth on promargin and 0-1 tooth on retromargin.

Body length female: 3.6-4.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Marinaro, 1968; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Morocco   (Di Franco, 1994b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Portugal   (Barrientos et al., 2020c) ||| Spain   (Narro-Martín & Cabanillas, 2021) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Silva A, Patanita M I, Benhadi-Marín J, Melic A, Santos S A P (2020c) Abundancia y diversidad de arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) en olivares del distrito de Beja (Portugal) en diferentes sistemas de cultivo. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 212-224 pdf

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

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Di Franco F (1994b) Nuovi dati sulle specie di Zelotes del Maghreb (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): considerazioni morfologiche e descrizione di Zelotes lagrecai n. sp. Animalia 19: 213-225 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 pdf

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

Marinaro J-Y (1968) Les araignées d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae à peigne metatarsal d'Algérie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 92: 687-704 pdf

Narro-Martín A J, Cabanillas D (2021) First record of Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967 (Arachnida, Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in Spain. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 45: 135-138 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

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