Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967

Levy, Gershom, 2009, New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel, Zootaxa 2066, pp. 1-49 : 29-30

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scientific name

Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967
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Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967 View in CoL

Figs 65, 66 View FIGURES 65, 66

Zelotes pediculatus Marinaro, 1967: 691 View in CoL , figs 8a, 8b, Ψ ( epigynum View in CoL ), Algeria; Di Franco, 1992: 220, fig. 9, Ψ (spermathecae), Morocco.

Note. Adult males have not yet been collected in Israel. The drawings of the peculiar genitalia of the female cited above render certainty of the identification.

Description. Colouration deep brown. Large eyes. Chelicerae with 3–4 pro- and 0–1 retromarginal teeth.

Female. Measurements (4 ΨΨ): total length 3.6–4.9; carapace length 1.7–2.2, width 1.2–1.7, index 1.23–1.41; labial index 1.4–1.6; clypeal index 1.25–1.75; MOQ index 9.54–11.17; legs length: I 3.9–4.7, II 3.0–4.4, III 3.0–4.0, IV 4.5–6.5; patella-tibia index 0.77–0.88.

Epigynum . Epigynal plate longitudinaly furrowed by fine, narrow indentation extending almost to discerning globular spermathecae ( Fig. 65 View FIGURES 65, 66 ); tightly coiled delicate ducts of spermathecae are deeply embeded in amorphous whitish mass ( Fig. 66 View FIGURES 65, 66 ; mass cleared on one side).

Diagnosis. The epigynal plate of the female with the fine median indentation and the spiriferous spermathecal ducts are all characters clearly separating Z. pediculatus from all other Zelotes species. Distribution. Algeria, Morocco, Israel - new record. Records. Israel: Adullam , Lakhish .

Di Franco, F. (1992) Nuovi dati sulle specie di Zelotes del Maghreb (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): considerazioni morfologiche e descrizione di Zelotes lagrecai n. sp. Animalia, Catania, 19, 213 - 225.

Marinaro, J. - Y. (1967) Les araignees d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae a peigne metatarsal d'Algerie. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 92, 687 - 704.

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FIGURES 65, 66. Zelotes pediculatus Mariano, 1967, Ψ. 65. Epigynum, ventral view. 66. Spermathecae, dorsal (inner) view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Gnaphosidae

Genus

Zelotes