Resources:
Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Heser  Tuneva, 2004   5 species

Heser schmitzi  (Kulczyński, 1899)

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis short, with relatively wide distal part. Prosoma length: 1.10 mm, prosoma width: 0.76 mm. Prosoma and legs brown, tarsi somewhat lighter. Opisthosoma black, scutum occupying 40% of opisthosoma length.

Body length male: 2.57-3.5 mm
Female

Epigynal septum almost rectangular. Prosoma length: 1.36 mm, prosoma width: 0.95 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.1-4.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Madeira, Canary Is. Introduced to USA
Phenology
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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.

Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Platnick N I, Murphy J A (1998) On the widespread species Zelotes schmitzi (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 118-119 pdf

Senglet A (2012) Civizelotes new genus, and other new or little known Zelotinae (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 119: 501-528 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
25-03-2014 Image insert
04-02-2014 Image insert