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Genus: Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Coelotes pastor Simon, 1875

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, France, Italy

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Coelotes pastor Simon, 1875a: 38, pl. 5, f. 12 (Dmf) Original description

Coelotes pastor Kulczyński, 1887: 274, 342, pl. 8, f. 60 (m)

Amaurobius pastor Kulczyński, 1906b: 454, pl. 14, f. 6, 9-10, pl. 15, f. 36, 52, 58 (mf)

Coelotes pastor Simon, 1937: 986, 989, 1035, f. 1512, 1519 (mf)

Coelotes pastor Drensky, 1942: 43, f. 9a (f)

Coelotes pastor de Blauwe, 1973a: 81, f. 71-74 (mf)

Coelotes pastor de Blauwe, 1973b: 267, f. 1-11 (f)

Coelotes pastor de Blauwe, 1975: 146, f. 1-2 (f)

Coelotes pastor Maurer, 1982b: 166, f. 2a, 3, 4a (f)

Coelotes pastor Trotta, 2005: 161, f. 201 (f)

Coelotes pickardi pastor Isaia & Pantini, 2009: 25, f. 2a (m)

Coelotes pastor Sherwood, 2024b: 219 (elevated from subspecies of Coelotes pickardi)

Coelotes pastor Fernández-Pérez et al., 2025: 92, f. 2A-B (f)

References

Blauwe, R. de (1973a). Révision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région méditerranéenne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49(2): 1-111. -- Show included taxa

Blauwe, R. de (1973b). Contribution à l'étude des Agelenidae et Drassidae des collections du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Vérone. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 20: 263-273. -- Show included taxa

Blauwe, R. de (1975). Deuxième contribution à l'étude des Agelenidae des collections du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Vérone. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 2: 145-154. -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1942). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens V. Mitteilungen aus den Königlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Instituten in Sofia 15: 33-60. -- Show included taxa

Fernández-Pérez, J., Cuesta-Segura, A. D., Caballero, L. Á. & Prieto, C. E. (2025). Primeros datos de arañas (Araneae) para el Parque Natural Montaña Palentina, y otros datos para la provincia de Palencia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 90-100. -- Show included taxa

Isaia, M. & Pantini, P. (2009). Coelotes pickardi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873: un intricato caso di sinonimia per un endemita alpino ritrovato in Valle Oropa e le sue sottospecie (Arachnida, Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Memorie dell'Associazione Naturalistica Piemontese 11: 23-28. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1887). Przyczynek do tyrolskiej fauny pajeczakow. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 16: 245-356 (+ appendix, pp. 1-12). -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1906b). Fragmenta arachnologica. VII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1906: 417-476. -- Show included taxa

Maurer, R. (1982b). Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Coelotes (Araneae, Agelenidae) in Alpenländern II. Die pastor-Gruppe der italienischen und französischen Alpen - Beschreibung von C. pastor lessinensis ssp. n. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 8: 165-183. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2024b). Studies on spider nomenclature – I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(23): 189-235. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.23 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- 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	Comment
2026-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Fernández-Pérez et al., 2025
2026-01-09	Species distribution update	Fernández-Pérez et al., 2025	Old value
2025-01-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2024b
2025-01-05	Species updated	Sherwood, 2024b	Old value	New status