Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Zelotes  Gistel, 1848   128 species

Zelotes fulvaster  (Simon, 1878)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown. Prosoma length: 1.86-2.0 mm, prosoma width: 1.4-1.46 mm. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum blackish, venter grey.

Body length male: 4.7-4.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.25 mm, prosoma width: 1.75 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 5.2-5.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France (Corsica), Italy, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Russia (Europe), Iran
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.

Bulgaria   (Senglet, 2011) ||| Cyprus   (Özden et al., 2023) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007; Senglet, 2011) ||| Greece   (Senglet, 2011) ||| Italy   (Picchi, 2020) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2020b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Seyyar & Demir, 2020c; Varol & Akpınar, 2018; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Özden Ö, Coşar İ, Kunt K B, Danışman T (2023) Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), a new record for spider fauna of Cyprus. Acta Zoologica Cypria 1: 26-30 pdf

Picchi M S (2020) Spiders (Araneae) of olive groves and adjacent semi-natural habitats from central Italy. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 1-11 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2020b) New species and new records of spiders (Aranei) in the south of Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16: 299-309 pdf

Senglet A (2011) New species in the Zelotes tenuis-group and new or little known species in other Zelotes groups (Gnaphosidae, Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118: 513-559 pdf

Seyyar O, Demir H (2020c) Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new spider record from Turkey. Serket 17: 133-135 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

Varol M İ, Akpınar A (2018) Two new records for genus Zelotes from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 7: 227-229 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

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