Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0054] Back

Gen. Zelotes Gistel, 1848 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02500 ]
N.B.: Zelotes is the oldest available replacement name for Melanophora C. L. Koch, 1833: 120, pl. 20 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05271], preoccupied in Diptera by Meigen, 1803 (see also the discussions by Bonnet, 1957: 2759 and Bonnet, 1959: 4909); considered a senior synonym of Prosthesima L. Koch, 1872b: 139 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06140] (replacement name for Melanophora) by Simon, 1914: 213; considered a senior synonym of Scotophinus Simon, 1905a: 169 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05272] (type S. maindroni Simon, 1905) by Platnick, 1989b: 488, of Zavattarica Caporiacco, 1941b: 68/114 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05273] (type Z. bimamillata Caporiacco, 1941 = Zelotes mediocris (Kulczyński, 1901)) by Platnick, 1992: 178 and of Aracus Thorell, 1887: 35 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02398] (type A. captator Thorell, 1887) by Sankaran, 2022c: 145; Archizelotes Lohmander, 1944: 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06024] (type Prosthesima latreillei Simon, 1878) and Heterozelotes Lohmander, 1944: 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06025] (type Melanophora petrensis) were described as subgenera of Zelotes.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-03-23
Described in
Gistel, 1848: IX (type Melanophora subterranea C. L. Koch, 1833; gender masculine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
401accepted
82synonym
1nomen nudum
33nomen dubium
3homonym replaced
Reference

Gistel, J. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere Schulen. Stuttgart, (Araneae, pp. IX-X, 155-158, pl. 11). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.97235 download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-03-02 Genus synonymy Sankaran, 2022c Aracus synonymized with Zelotes