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

Zelotes fuligineus Purcell, 1907

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa f (14604) of Zelotes fuliginoides - (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (4343) of Zelotes simoni - (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (8589) of Zelotes montanus - (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1m 3f (9277) - (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Paralectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1m (150.601) of Zelotes aculeatus [N.B.: f lectotype is Zelotes invidus] - (FitzPatrick, 2007)

Taxonomic References

Melanophora fuliginea Purcell, 1907: 327, pl. 15, f. 44-46 (Dmf) Original description

Melanophora simoni Purcell, 1907: 329, pl. 15, f. 49 (Df)

Melanophora montana Purcell, 1907: 329, pl. 15, f. 51 (Df)

Melanophora aculeata Purcell, 1908: 237, pl. 11, f. 20 (m, misidentified)

Prosthesima montana Tullgren, 1910: 110, pl. 1, f. 24 (f)

Melanophora fuliginoides Hewitt, 1915b: 101, f. 8a (Df)

Zelotes fuligineus Tucker, 1923: 359

Zelotes montanus Tucker, 1923: 364

Zelotes simoni Tucker, 1923: 374

Zelotes fuliginoides Tucker, 1923: 379

Zelotes montanus Kauri, 1950: 75, f. 9 (f)

Zelotes fuligineus FitzPatrick, 2007: 102, f. 3-6 (mf, S)

Zelotes fuligineus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E: 19, p. 19: 6 f., p. 20: 1 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021E). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 4 (Z). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7197783 -- Show included taxa

FitzPatrick, M. J. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of Zelotes (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(3): 97-172. doi: 10.13156/arac.2011.14.3.97 -- Show included taxa

Hewitt, J. (1915b). Descriptions of new South African Arachnida. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown 3: 70-106. -- Show included taxa

Kauri, H. (1950). On some South African spiders and harvest-spiders. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Förhandlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Physiographic Society at Lund) 20(6): 64-79. -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi: 10.1080/00222930709487339 -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1908). Araneae (I). In: Schultze, L. (ed.): Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Erster Band: Systematik und Tiergeographie. Zweite Lieferung. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 13: 203-246, pl. 11. -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-02-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E