Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Zelotes

Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028273]
  • Distribution: North Africa to Senegal and Kenya, Portugal, France, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran. Introduced to Hawaii, USA, Mexico, Peru, Galapagos, Ascension
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (AR1824) of Zelotes salensis (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m (B262.2.61) (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m (B267) of Zelotes tristiculus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1m 1j (675, 676) of Zelotes elolensis [the male is a holotype per FitzPatrick, 2007] (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 1m 2f (B262, B267) of Zelotes inauratus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Taxonomic references
Melanophora laeta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 241, pl. 15, f. 19 (Dmf).
Melanophora inaurata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 246, pl. 16, f. 26 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062039].
Prosthesima tristicula O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 377, pl. 51, f. 6 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062058].
Prosthesima antiope Simon, 1878a: 64 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062030].
Prosthesima laeta Simon, 1878a: 98.
Prosthesima inaurata Simon, 1878a: 99.
Zelotes antiope Simon, 1914: 174, 216, f. 364 (Df).
Zelotes reformans Chamberlin, 1924b: 625, f. 65 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062053].
Zelotes salensis Berland, 1936: 70, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028372].
Zelotes elolensis Caporiacco, 1941b: 92, f. 33 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028190].
Zelotes inauratus Denis, 1955b: 107, f. 5-7 (m, Df).
Zelotes antiope Jézéquel, 1962b: 602, f. 17 (f).
Zelotes inauratus Denis, 1966e: 106, f. 6-7 (m).
Zelotes inauratus Marinaro, 1968: 695, f. 15 (f).
Zelotes reformans Platnick & Shadab, 1983a: 182, f. 253-258 (f, Dm).
Zelotes laetus Levy, 1998c: 122, f. 58-61 (mf, S of Zelotes antiope, Z. inauratus, Z. reformans and Z. tristiculus).
Zelotes laetus FitzPatrick, 2007: 108, f. 21-24 (mf, S of Zelotes elolensis and Z. salensis).
Zelotes laetus Wunderlich, 2011: 406, f. 13-16 (mf).
Zelotes laetus Danışman & Erol, 2022: 350, f. 1-6 (f).
Zelotes laetus Zamani et al., 2022b: 361, f. 11-13 (m).
Zelotes laetus Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 33, f. 11a-b (mf).
Zelotes laetus Baert et al., 2023: 10, f. 33A-D (mf).
Zelotes laetus Abdalrazzaq & Najim, 2024: 144, f. 4A-B, 5A-C (m).
References

Abdalrazzaq, R. K. & Najim, S. A. (2024). Two new records of gnaphosid spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from eastern Al-Hammar marsh south of Iraq. Serket 20(2): 141-146. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Abdel-Ghani, D. M., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1936). Mission de M. A. Chevalier aux iles du Cap Vert (1934). 1. Araignées. Revue Française d'Entomologie 3: 67-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924b). The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12: 561-694. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Danışman, T. & Erol, Y. (2022). First report of Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Turkey. Serket 18(3): 349-352. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1966e). Les araignées du Fezzân. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 55: 103-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

FitzPatrick, M. J. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of Zelotes (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(3): 97-172. doi:10.13156/arac.2011.14.3.97 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jézéquel, J. F. (1962b). Contribution à l'étude des Zelotes femelles (Araneidea [sic], Labidognatha, Gnaphosidae) de la fauna française (2e note). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (2) 33: 594-610. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998c). The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 93-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marinaro, J.-Y. (1968). Les araignées d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae à peigne metatarsal d'Algérie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 92(4, 1967): 687-704. [year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 90] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1874a). On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(3): 370-419, pl. 51-52. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb02495.x 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

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. (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

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

Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IX. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 358-384. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.358 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023 n/a
2024-12-22 Species distribution update Baert et al., 2023 n/a (Old value)
2024-06-02 New taxonomic reference entry Abdalrazzaq & Najim, 2024 n/a
2024-06-02 Species distribution update Abdalrazzaq & Najim, 2024 n/a (Old value)
2023-12-28 New taxonomic reference entry Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023 n/a
2022-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2022b n/a
2022-06-15 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2022b n/a (Old value)
2022-05-19 New taxonomic reference entry Danışman & Erol, 2022 n/a
2022-05-19 Species distribution update Danışman & Erol, 2022 n/a (Old value)