Zelotes metellus Roewer, 1928

Senglet, Antoine, 2011, New species in the zelotes tenuis-group and new or little known species in other zelotes groups (gnaphosidae, araneae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (3), pp. 513-559 : 556-557

Zelotes metellus Roewer, 1928 Figs 171-178

Zelotes metellus Roewer 1928: 110 , pl. 1, figs 16-17 (description of ♀).

Camillina metellus . – Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2003: 48, figs 8-9 (not Ƌ in figs 3-7 = Z. prishutovae ).

Zelotes sumchi Levy, 1998: 151 , figs 128-130 (description of Ƌ) syn. n. – Levy, 2009: 41, figs 87-88 (description of ♀).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: IRAN, Fars, Firouzábád , 28°52'N 52°32'E; 1 Ƌ , 1 ♀, 1 immature

Ƌ; 06.06.1974. – Kavár, 29°12'N 52°37'E; 1 Ƌ; 05.06.1974.

DESCRIPTION: Prosoma brown. Opisthosoma black, covered with medium-long adpressed hairs. Legs brown, with lighter tarsi and metatarsi. Posterior eyes small, in a straight row. – Ƌ from Firouzábád (in parentheses from Kavar): Total length 4.75 (3.80). Prosoma: 1.85 (1.60) long, 1.45 (1.23) wide, 0.77 (0.59) wide at level of posterior eyes. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.06 (0.05), ALE 0.10 (0.09), PME 0.08 (0.07), PLE 0.08 (0.07); AME-AME 0.05 (0.04), AME-ALE 0.01, PME-PME 0.04 (0.03), PME-PLE 0.03, ALE-PLE 0.04 (0.03). MOQ length 0.20, front width 0.34, back width 0.40. Clypeus: 0.17 from AME, 0.08 from ALE. Pedipalp (Figs 171- 176): Patella dorsally longer than tibia. Tarsus width same as dorsal length. Embolus wide, with tapering tip. Tarsi I, II entirely scopulate, metatarsi I, II in apical two thirds. Leg spination: Tibia III r111; metatarsus I v000. Scutum occupying 1/5 of opisthosoma length. – ♀: Total length 5.70. Prosoma 2.20 long, 1.66 wide; 0.87 wide at level of posterior eyes. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.06, ALE 0.11, PME 0.08, PLE 0.10; AME-AME 0.06, AME-ALE 0.01, PME-PME 0.04, PME-PLE 0.06, ALE-PLE 0.04. MOQ length 0.25, front width 0.38, back width 0.45. Clypeus: 0.11 from AME, 0.08 from ALE. Vulva (Figs 177-178): Lateral anterior vulval sacs fused to epigynal cuticle, visible on epigynum. Posterior eye row slightly recurved. Tarsi and metatarsi I, II scopulate.

REMARKS: Chatzaki et al. (2003: 48) transferred this species to Camillina on the basis of a bifid terminal apophysis on the male palp and did not take into account the very distinct ocular pattern of Camillina . The ocular pattern of Z. metellus is clearly of the Zelotes type, its terminal apophysis is not bifid.

FIGS 171-178

Zelotes metellus . (171-176) Left male palp. (171) Prolateral view. (172) Ventral view. (173) Retrolateral view. (174) Cymbium discarded, dorsal view. (175) Id., apical view. (176) Id., prolateral view. (177) Vulva, ventral view. (178) Id., dorsal view. Bold lines indicate epigynal folds. Scale lines 0.2 mm.