Zelotes

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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|taxon=Zelotes

|image=Zelotes.iriomotensis.female.-.tanikawa.jpg

|image_caption=Female Zelotes iriomotensis

|authority=Gistel, 1848

|type_species=Z. subterraneus

|type_species_authority=(C. L. Koch, 1833)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=400, see text

|synonyms=*Scotophinus Simon, 1905{{cite book|last=Platnick|first=N. I.|year=1989|title=Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981|publisher=Manchester University Press|volume=1981|page=488}}

  • Zavattarica Caporiacco, 1941{{cite journal|last=Platnick|first=N. I.|year=1992|title=On the spider subfamily Zavattaricinae (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)|journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society|volume=100|page=178}}

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Zelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by J. Gistel in 1848.{{cite book|last=Gistel|first=J.|year=1848|title=Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere Schulen}}

Species

{{as of|2022|08}} it contains approximately 400 species:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Zelotes Gistel, 1848|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1008|doi=10.24436/2|last1=Gloor|first1=Daniel|last2=Nentwig|first2=Wolfgang|last3=Blick|first3=Theo|last4=Kropf|first4=Christian}}

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References

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Category:Gnaphosidae

Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Cosmopolitan spiders