Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Zelotes

Zelotes lightfooti (Purcell, 1907)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2023-02-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028280]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; f (B2859) of Zelotes ornatus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 2f (3251) (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Taxonomic references
Melanophora lightfooti Purcell, 1907: 329, pl. 15, f. 48 (Df).
Zelotes lightfooti Tucker, 1923: 363.
Zelotes ornatus Tucker, 1923: 368, pl. 11, f. 73 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028328].
Zelotes lightfooti FitzPatrick, 2007: 135, f. 153-154 (f, S of Zelotes ornatus).
Zelotes lightfooti Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E: 28, 4 f. (f).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021E). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 4 (Z). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7197783 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

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi:10.1080/00222930709487339 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E n/a