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Zelotes laetus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, FI- 20014 University of Turku, Turku 20500, Finland
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol 98613 - 35856, Iran
  • 3. Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Šrobárova 2, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia
  • 4. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & Altai State University, Lenina Pr., 61, Barnaul, RF- 656049, Russia & Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia

Description

Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Figs 13A‒B, 14A‒B, 15E‒H, 16A‒C

Zelotes laetus: Levy 1998: 122, figs 58‒61 (♂ ♀).

For a list of 22 taxonomic references, see WSC (2025).

Material. IRAN: Sistan & Baluchistan Prov.: 2♂ 1♀ (ZMUT), Zabol, 31°02'12"N 61°32'14"E, 480 m, 30.04.2022, 7.05.2022 (M. Enayatnia).

Comment. Based on the structure of the male palp, this species belongs to the puritanus group. It was overlooked by Fomichev & Marusik (2021) as a member of this group and was not included in their listing. Although the species has been described in several publications, details of the male palpal structures have never been illustrated. Therefore, we provide detailed photographs here.

Records in Iran. Hormozgan. New record for Sistan & Baluchistan (the easternmost record).

Distribution. Mediterranean to Iran. Introduced to Hawaii, USA, Mexico, Peru, Ascension Is.

Notes

Published as part of Zamani, Alireza, Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Mirshekar, Ali, Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Kováč, Ľubomír & Marusik, Yuri M., 2025, New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 5601 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14980335

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F2E9F5DFFBC9C78FF0639C301B3F810

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14980379 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14980383 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14980385 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.14980391 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/14980335 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8317E725FFAB9C6FFF913C070555FFB9 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C4F63D07-6CE5-421E-9E7A-9698BEE10700 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/7F2E9F5DFFBC9C78FF0639C301B3F810 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/255704869 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/308599/taxon/7F2E9F5DFFBC9C78FF0639C301B3F810.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMUT
Scientific name authorship
O. Pickard-Cambridge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Gnaphosidae
Genus
Zelotes
Species
laetus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Zelotes laetus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) sec. Zamani, Enayatnia, Mirshekar, Mayvan, Kováč & Marusik, 2025

References

  • Levy, G. (1998) The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology, 44, 93-158.
  • WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 26 February 2025) https://doi.org/10.24436/2
  • Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021) A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 11. New data on Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Tajikistan. Zootaxa, 4966 (4), 443-457. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.3