Zelotes cordubensis, Senglet & Ch-, 2011

Senglet, Antoine, 2011, New species in the zelotes tenuis-group and new or little known species in other zelotes groups (gnaphosidae, araneae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (3), pp. 513-559 : 545

Zelotes cordubensis sp. n. Figs 126-128

HOLOTYPE: SPAIN, Andalusia, Cordoba, Los Villares / Cordoba (Pinus litter), 37°59'N

04°48'W; Ƌ; 31.05.2009. PARATYPE: Spain, Cordoba , Breña dam (evergreen oak litter) , 37°51'N 05°04'W; 1 Ƌ;

01.06.2002.

ETYMOLOGY: The species name, an adjective, is derived from Corduba, the

Roman name of Cordoba.

DESCRIPTION: Prosoma light coloured, adorned with very fine adpressed hairs and medium-sized black bristles. Opisthosoma covered with black adpressed hairs and black bristles. – Ƌ holotype (paratype in parentheses): Total length 5.00 (5.50). Prosoma 2.25 (2.50) long, 1.72 (1.90) wide, 0.87 (1.00) wide at level of posterior eyes. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.07 (0.07), ALE 0.08 (0.10), PME 0.07 (0.08), PLE 0.07 (0.08); AME-AME 0.05, AME-ALE 0.01, PME-PME 0.04 (0.06), PME-PLE 0.07, ALE-PLE 0.06 (0.07). MOQ length 0.21, front width 0.40, back width 0.50. Clypeus: 0.10 from AME, 0.07 from ALE. Posterior eye row slightly recurved. Pedipalp (Figs 126-128): Patella dorsally longer than tibia, the latter wider than long. Retrolateral tibial apophysis less long than 1.3 of cymbium and slightly longer than tibia, flexed backward, flattened and widened at tip. Terminal apophysis oblique, in a prolateral position, depressed, its margin tapering to the tip; its posterior sclerite directly connected to embolus, linked to embolar base by whitish cuticle. In ventral view apical protrusion of median apophysis partially concealed by terminal apophysis (Fig. 127). Embolar base with rounded apical projection protruding beyond junction with embolus (Figs 126-128). Embolus flattened and enlarged, with a ventral indentation. Tarsi I, II entirely scopulate; metatarsi in apical half. Leg spination: Femur II p011; metatarsi I, II v220; III, IV v221. Scutum occupying 1/4 of opisthosoma length or less.

REMARKS: Z. cordubensis sp. n. is closest to Z. hispaliensis sp. n. due to the reduced apical protrusion of the median apophysis, and to Z. baeticus sp. n. due to the presence of a ventral indentation on the embolus and due to a terminal projection on the embolar base. The differences from the two sister species justify the description of a new species. The specimens examined were collected from evergreen oak and Pinus leaf litter.