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Genus: Zelotes Gistel, 1848 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Zelotes funereus (Dalmas, 1921)

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (missing) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)

Taxonomic References

Gnaphosa lugubris O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 212, pl. 24, f. 2 (Dm; preoccupied by C. L. Koch, 1839, see Gnaphosa lugubris)

Gnaphosa funerea Dalmas, 1921: 326 (replacement name) Original description

Pterochroa funerea Benoit, 1977c: 52 (T from Gnaphosa; misidentified per Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1233, see also Grimm, 1985: 206, 288 and Thaler & Knoflach, 2004b: 462: mf f. 18a-f see Gnaphosa lugubris)

Zelotes lugubris Grimm, 1985: 206, f. 251 (m; sub preoccupied name, per Grimm, 1985: 288, Thaler & Knoflach, 2004b: 462 and Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1233)

Zelotes funereus Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1234 (T from Gnaphosa)

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977c). Fam. Drassidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 52-62. -- Show included taxa

Dalmas, R. de (1921). Monographie des araignées de la section des Pterotricha (Aran. Gnaphosidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 233-328. -- Show included taxa

Grimm, U. (1985). Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873e). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 210-227, pl. 24. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00504.x -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024e
2024-11-04	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2024e		Species transferred from Gnaphosa to Zelotes