Zelotes lehavim, Levy, Gershom, 2009

Levy, Gershom, 2009, New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel, Zootaxa 2066, pp. 1-49 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186952
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222053
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0E2987C9-7913-0C0E-3DF6-FB38FD85F8D9
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Zelotes lehavim
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Zelotes lehavim View in CoL n. sp.

Figs 79, 80 View FIGURES 79, 80

Type material. Adult male holotype from Lehavim , southern foothills of Judea, Israel, leg. Iris Musli, March 2005, pitfall trap ( HUJ 15505). Female unknown.

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition referring to the type locality.

Description. Small zelotine with brown carapace, black opisthosoma and barely marked dorsal scutum. Legs yellow with black femora, patellae and tibiae. Small eyes; AME smallest, ALE largest, PME and PLE subequal and separated from each other. Chelicerae with 3 minute promarginal teeth.

Male. Measurements (holotype): total length 2.8; carapace length 1.3, width 0.95, index 1.37; labial index 1.44; clypeal index 3.0; MOQ index 10.8; legs length: I 2.9, II 2.5, III 2.0, IV 3.2; patella-tibia index 0.84.

Palpus. Very small with curved terminal apophysis extending into bifid, black protrusion ( Fig. 79 View FIGURES 79, 80 ); pointed, spur-like tegular apophysis projects basally, along ectal side ( Fig. 80 View FIGURES 79, 80 ).

Diagnosis. Based on male. The male palpus of Z. lehavim with the peculiar terminal apophysis, the bifid projection and the ectal tegular apophysis is easily distinguished from all other Zelotes species.

Distribution. Israel, known only from the type locality.

Comment. The bifid projection of the palpus may point toward Camillina but the eye alignment with the spaced PME conforms to Zelotes .