Taxon details


Zelotes subterraneus (C. L. Koch, 1833)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-12-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028403]
  • Distribution: Europe, Cyprus, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Melanophora subterranea C. L. Koch, 1833, (2201)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Filistata atra Wider, 1834, 1 f (5068-99a)
Taxonomic references
Melanophora subterranea C. L. Koch, 1833: 120, pl. 20-21 (Dmf).
Filistata atra Wider, 1834: 197, pl. 14, f. 2 (Dm).
Melanophora subterranea C. L. Koch, 1839a: 85, f. 491-492 (Dmf).
Melanophora violacea C. L. Koch, 1839a: 71, f. 482 (Df).
Zelotes [subterraneus] Gistel, 1848: IX (generic replacement name for Melanophora).
Drassus ater Blackwall, 1861a: 106, pl. 6, f. 63 (Dmf).
Melanophora subterranea L. Koch, 1866: 170, pl. 7, f. 110-112 (mf).
Melanophora petiverii Menge, 1872: 305, pl. 55, f. 175 (m, misidentified).
Melanophora petrensis Menge, 1872: 308, pl. 55, f. 177 (f, misidentified).
Prosthesima violacea L. Koch, 1877b: 152.
Prosthesima subterranea Simon, 1878a: 52.
Prosthesima petiverii Hansen, 1882: 58, pl. 4, f. 5 (mf, misidentified).
Melanophora subterranea Simon, 1893a: 373, f. 328.
Prosthesima subterranea Becker, 1896: 243, pl. 16, f. 4 (mf).
Prosthesima subterranea Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 200, pl. 8, f. 17, 30 (mf).
Prosthesima subterranea Bösenberg, 1902: 308, pl. 29, f. 454C-D (m, not f).
Prosthesima clivicola Bösenberg, 1902: 312, pl. 29, f. 461A-B (f, not m).
Zelotes subterraneus Simon, 1914: 166, 179, 214, f. 336-337, 384 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Reimoser, 1937a: 33, f. 69, 85 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Tullgren, 1942: 231 (S Z. reconditus, rejected).
Zelotes subterraneus Palmgren, 1943: 102, f.
Zelotes subterraneus Tullgren, 1946: 114, f. 33A, pl. 18, f. 237-239 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Denis, 1947e: 149, f. 5.
Zelotes subterraneus Denis, 1947e: 149, f. 5 (f).
Zelotes subterraneus Cooke, 1962: 247, f. 11 (m, removed from S of Z. ater).
Zelotes subterraneus Jézéquel, 1962a: 527, f. 8 (f).
Zelotes subterraneus Brændegaard, 1966: 121, f. 103-104 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Miller, 1967: 257, pl. I, f. 1-3, pl. V, f. 1 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Azheganova, 1968: 101, f. 228, 242 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Tystshenko, 1971: 99, f. 204, 225 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Miller, 1971: 89, pl. VIII, f. 14, pl. IX, f. 19-20 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 9, f. 4B (m).
Zelotes subterraneus Grimm, 1982: 170, f. 1, 4, 5a, 6 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Platnick & Shadab, 1983a: 105, f. 2-5 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Grimm, 1985: 256, f. 12a, 274, 282, 303-304 (mf).
Zelotes violacea Grimm, 1985: 288 (nomen dubium).
Zelotes subterraneus Murphy & Platnick, 1986: 100, f. 5-13 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Roberts, 1987: 174, f. 90a (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Ovtsharenko & Marusik, 1988: 210, f. 35 (m).
Zelotes subterraneus Hu, 1989: 101, f. 7-8 (m).
Zelotes subterraneus Hu & Wu, 1989: 298, f. 239.1-2 (m).
Zelotes subterraneus Izmailova, 1989: 110, f. 96 (f).
Zelotes subterraneus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 446, f. 1183 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Noordam, 1992: 12 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Roberts, 1995: 115, f. (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Mcheidze, 1997: 117, f. 168-169 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Bellmann, 1997: 168, f. (f).
Zelotes subterraneus Roberts, 1998: 119, f. (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2003: 63, f. 52-56 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004: 278, f. 165A-D (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Almquist, 2006: 430, f. 371a-i (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Kovblyuk, 2006a: 211, f. 2.1-3, 5.1-2, 6.3-4, 7.3 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Murphy, 2007: 37, f. 196-197 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Russell-Smith, 2008: 23, f. 5-8 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Wunderlich, 2011: 37, f. 18 (m).
Zelotes subterraneus Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2013: 424, f. 9, 14-17 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Lecigne, 2016d: 28, f. 14F-I (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2019a: 10, f. 49-64 (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Al-Yacoub & Al-Abbad, 2022: 388, f. 3-5 (mf; N.B.: most probable misidentified).
Zelotes subterraneus Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 252, f. 188A-G (mf).
Zelotes prope subterraneus Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023: 26, f. 11A-I (mf).
Zelotes subterraneus Danışman & Ülker, 2023: 2, f. 1A-B, 2A-D (m).
References

Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Al-Abbad, M. Y. M. (2022). Genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), a new record from Iraq. Serket 18(3): 386-390. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63: 285-601. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Azheganova, N. S. (1968). Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, 304 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. [Part I]. Ray Society, London, pp. 1-174, pl. 1-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143674 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R. & Gavalas, I. (2023). The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11(Supplementum 1): 1-91. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1966). Edderkopper eller spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M., Thaler, K. & Mylonas, M. (2003). Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) from Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. III. Zelotes and allied genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110(1): 45-89. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.80176 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Cooke, J. A. L. (1962). The spiders of Colne Point, Essex, with descriptions of two species new to Britain. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 97: 245-253. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Danışman, T. & Ülker, A. (2023). Zelotes subterraneus (C. L. Koch, 1833) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), a new spider record for Cyprus. Acta Zoologica Cypria 2(1): 1-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1947e). Araignées de France. I. Araignées de Vendée avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle des Pyrénées-Orientales. Revue Française d'Entomologie 14: 145-155. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 -- Show included taxa

Grimm, U. (1982). Sibling species in the Zelotes subterraneus-group and description of 3 new species of Zelotes from Europe (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 25: 169-183. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grimm, U. (1985). Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H. J. (1882). Spindeldyr. In: Schiödte, J. C. (ed.) Zoologia Danica. Kjöbenhavn 3, 1-81, I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1989). On four species of gnaphosid spiders from China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Journal of Shadong University 24: 98-105. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Izmailova, M. V. (1989). [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk State University Publishing, 184 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jézéquel, J. F. (1962a). Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneida, Labidognatha, Drassodidae "Gnaphosidae") de la fauna française. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (Zool. Anz.) 25(Suppl.): 519-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1833). Arachniden. In: Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.) Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, Heft 119-121. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1877b). Verzeichniss der bei Nürnberg bis jetzt beobachteten Arachniden (mit Ausschluss der Ixodiden und Acariden) und Beschreibungen von neuen, hier vorkommenden Arten. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 6: 113-198. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. (2006a). Zelotes kukushkini sp. n. (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) and close related species from Palaearctic. Vestnik Zoologii 40: 205-217. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2013). On four poorly known species of spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae and Lycosidae) described by T. Thorell from Crimea. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65(4): 423-427. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2016d). Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [English version published by Otto (2014) available here] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1872). Preussische Spinnen. V. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 3: 297-326. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1967). Studien über die Kopulationsorgane der Spinnengattung Zelotes, Micaria, Robertus und Dipoena nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen oder unvollkommen bekannten Spinnenarten. Přírodovědné práce ústavů Československé Akademie Věd v Brně (N.S.) 1: 251-298. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. A. & Platnick, N. I. (1986). On Zelotes subterraneus (C. L. Koch) in Britain (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 97-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Noordam, A. (1992). Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of the Netherlands, drawings, some notes, and some thoughts about ant-mimicry. Published by the author, Leiden, Netherlands, viii & 16 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Marusik, Y. M. (1988). Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 67: 204-217. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands II. Acta Zoologica Fennica 36: 1-115. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1983a). A revision of the American spiders of the genus Zelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 174: 97-191. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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(1): 3-22. doi:10.23885/181433262019151-322 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1937a). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 16. Familie: Gnaphosidae oder Plattbauchspinnen. 17. Familie: Anyphaenidae oder Zartspinnen. 18. Familie: Clubionidae oder Röhrenspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 1-99. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1987). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: Linyphiidae and check list. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 204 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, A. (2008). Identification of Zelotes apricorum and Zelotes subterraneus. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 113: 23-24. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, F. (2004). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 39: Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Science Press, Beijing, 362 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1946). Svensk spindelfauna: 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Entomologiska Föreningen, Stockholm, 141 pp., pl. 1-21. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1942). Bidrag till kännedomen om den svenska spindelfaunan. I. Entomologisk Tidskrift 63: 217-234. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wider, F. (1834). Arachniden. In: Reuss, A. (ed.) Zoologische miscellen. Museum Senckenbergianum, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 1, 195-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, F., Peng, J. Y. & Zhang, B. S. (2022). Spiders of Mt. Xiaowutai. Science Press, Beijing, 387 pp. [pdf in three parts] download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-12-23 New taxonomic reference entry Danışman & Ülker, 2023 n/a
2023-12-23 Species distribution update Danışman & Ülker, 2023 n/a (Old value)
2023-11-22 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023 n/a
2022-11-18 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022 n/a
2022-05-19 New taxonomic reference entry Al-Yacoub & Al-Abbad, 2022 n/a
2019-08-20 New taxonomic reference entry Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2019a n/a
2017-01-25 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2016d n/a
2014-06-30 New taxonomic reference entry Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2013 n/a