Zelotes gallicus Simon, 1914
Description
Male palp with keel, partly covered by distal part of bulbus. Tibial apophysis retrolaterally and sword-shaped. Embolus short and robust. Epigyne with median protrusion of posterior cuticular ridge, overlapping lateral protrusion posteriorly. Prosoma red to black-brown, oval, with dark marginal band. Opisthosoma red to black-brown, with dark scuticula.
Body length male: 5.3-6.6 mmBody length female: 5.9-8.4 mm
Additional information
Similar to Z. clivicola.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Di Franco 2002)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Di Franco 2002)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Grimm 1985)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)
Epigyne
(Pesarini 2000)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Di Franco 2002)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1997)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1997)
Epigyne
(Grimm 1985)
Vulva
(Di Franco 2002)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)
Vulva, ventral view
(Senglet 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Senglet 2004)
Vulva
(Esyunin & Efimik 1997)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Grimm 1985)
Vulva, ventral view
(Grimm 1985)
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
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) 
Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Di Franco F (2002) New data on four little-known species of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 196-200
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1997) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 6. New data on the taxonomy and faunistics of gnaphosid spiders of the south Urals (Arachnida Aranei Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(3/4): 105-111
Grimm U (1985) Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Pesarini C (2000) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna araneologica italiana (Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 379-393
Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2019a) A review of spiders of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 of the subterraneus-group (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15: 3-22
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
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
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
Zhukovets E M (2017) [Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha]. Riftur Print, Minsk, 272 pp. [N.B.: presumably publ. in Jan. 2019]