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

Zelotes khostensis Kovblyuk & Ponomarev, 2008

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041939

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Described:

Distribution: Italy, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran

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Taxonomic References

Prosthesima serotina Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 201, pl. 8, f. 25 (m; misidentified per Rozwalka et al., 2016: 6)

Zelotes serotinus Tystshenko, 1971: 99, f. 203 (m; misidentified per Rozwalka et al., 2016: 6

Zelotes serotinus Mcheidze, 1997: 116, f. 164 (m; misidentified per Rozwalka et al., 2016: 6)

Zelotes khostensis Kovblyuk & Ponomarev, 2008: 147, f. 22-30 (Dmf) Original description

Zelotes khostensis Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018: 30, f. 5a-d (mf)

Zelotes khostensis Zamani et al., 2020: 580, f. 4A (m)

References

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2008). New and interesting spiders (Aranei: Agelenidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Nemesiidae, Thomisidae) from the west Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4: 143-154. -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [[English version published by Otto (2014) available here]] -- Show included taxa

Pantini, P. & Mazzoleni, F. (2018). I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69. -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Dimitrov, Di., Weiss, I., Alimohammadi, S., Rafiei-Jahed, R., Esyunin, S. L., Moradmand, M., Chatzaki, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII. Arachnology 18(6): 569-591. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.569 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-08-19	Species distribution update		Old value
2020-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2020
2020-11-02	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2020	Old value
2018-04-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018
2018-04-20	Species distribution update	Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018	Old value
2016-09-23	Species distribution update	Rozwałka et al., 2016a	Old value