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

Zelotes spadix (L. Koch, 1866)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028398

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

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Taxonomic References

Melanophora spadix Koch, 1866: 187, pl. 8, f. 126 (Df) Original description

Zelotes spadix Denis, 1952f: 116, f. 7-8 (f; m f. 5-6 belongs to Marinarozelotes per Melic, 1995c: 181 [sub Trachyzelotes])

Zelotes spadix Di Franco, 1994b: 223, f. 14 (f)

Zelotes spadix Melic, 1995c: 181, f. 3-4 (f)

Zelotes spadix Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 133, f. 74L (f)

Zelotes spadix Cendrero et al., 2025: 119, f. 4 (f)

References

Cendrero, J., Narro-Martín, A. J., Mora-Rubio, C. & Parejo-Pulido, D. (2025). Nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento de las arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de la provincia de Badajoz (Extremadura, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 117-122. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1952f). Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. I. Les Zelotes du Maroc. Revue Française d'Entomologie 19: 113-126. -- Show included taxa

Di Franco, F. (1994b). Nuovi dati sulle specie di Zelotes del Maghreb (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): considerazioni morfologiche e descrizione di Zelotes lagrecai n. sp. Animalia 19: 213-225. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Hefte 1-6. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, pp. 1-304. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Melic, A. (1995c). Un Zelotes nuevo para Europa y otro para la Península Ibérica (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zapateri, Revista Aragonesa de Entomología 5: 179-181. -- Show included taxa

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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	Comment
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Cendrero et al., 2025
2025-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025