Zelotes scrutatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Zamani, Alireza, Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Mirshekar, Ali, Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Kováč, Ľubomír & Marusik, Yuri M., 2025, New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII, Zootaxa 5601 (1), pp. 1-45 : 25-26

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scientific name	Zelotes scrutatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
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Zelotes scrutatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) View in CoL

Figs 13C‒D View FIGURE 13 , 14C‒D View FIGURE 14 , 15A‒D View FIGURE 15 , 16D‒F View FIGURE 16

Zelotes scrutatus View in CoL : Levy 1998: 125, figs 35‒36, 37a, 62‒68 (♂ ♀).

For a list of 28 taxonomic references, see WSC (2025).

Material. IRAN: Sistan & Baluchistan Prov.: 1♂ 1♀ ( ZMUT), Zabol, 31°02'12"N 61°32'14"E, 480 m, 2.05.2020 (M. Enayatnia) GoogleMaps .

Comment. This species belongs to the puritanus group ( Fomichev & Marusik 2021). Similar to Z. laetus , its palp has never been illustrated in detail, particularly the dorsal side of the bulb. This species differs from all Zelotes sensu lato by its distinctive abdominal pattern—a longitudinal brown band that is, apparently, absent in other congeners.

Records in Iran. Ilam, Kurdistan. New record for Sistan & Baluchistan.

Distribution. Western Palaearctic to Uzbekistan, Africa.

References

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021) A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 11. New data on Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Tajikistan. Zootaxa, 4966 (4), 443-457. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.3

Levy, G. (1998) The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology, 44, 93-158.

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 26 February 2025) https://doi.org/10.24436/2

Figures

FIGURE 13. Habitus of Zelotes laetus (A, B) and Zelotes scrutatus (C, D), dorsal view. A, D—males; B, C—females.

FIGURE 14. Male palps of Zelotes laetus (A, B) and Zelotes scrutatus (C, D). A, C—ventral view; B, D—retrolateral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 15. Bulbs of Zelotes scrutatus (A‒D) and Zelotes laetus (E‒H). A, E—retrolateral view; B, F—retrodorsal view; C, G—ventral view; D, H—apical view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 16. Epigynes of Zelotes laetus (A‒C) and Zelotes scrutatus (D‒F). A, D—intact, ventral view; B, E—macerated, ventral view; C, F—endogyne, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.