Zelotes adderet
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Zelotes
Name
Zelotes adderet Levy, Gershom, 2009 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Zelotes adderet Levy, Gershom, 2009, Zootaxa 2066: 41-42.
Materials Examined
Type material. Adult male holotype from the surroundings of Adderet, Adullam Reserve, Israel, leg. Tal Levanony, August 2003, pitfall trap (HUJ15548). Female unknown.
Etymology
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition referring to a site at the type locality close to the ruins of Biblical Adullam.
Description
Description. Small with relatively delicate body, dark yellow coloured and dorsal scutum. Small eyes, AME smallest, others subequal. Chelicerae with 5 pro- and 1 retromarginal teeth. Male. Measurements (holotype): total length 3.2; carapace length 1.5, width 1.3, index 1.15; labial index 1.29; clypeal index 1.0; MOQ index 9.38; legs length: I 4.6, II 4.0, III 3.3, IV 5.1; patella-tibia index 1.13. Palpus. Small with thick, black embolus originating on mesal side and bending around tip of large brown terminal apophysis (Figs 89, 90); oblique tibial apophysis projecting ectally (Fig. 90).
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. Based on male. The shape of the palpal sclerites with the strong embolus clearly separate Z. adderet from all other Zelotes species.
Distribution
Distribution. Israel, known only from the type locality.
Taxon Treatment
- Levy, Gershom; 2009: New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel, Zootaxa 2066: 41-42. doi
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