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), Heterozelotes Lohmander, 1944: 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06025] (type Melanophora petrensis) and Latzelotes Wunderlich, 2011: 318 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06203] (type Zelotes boluensis Wunderlich, 2011) were described as subgenera of Zelotes.