Zelotes adderet, Levy, Gershom, 2009

Levy, Gershom, 2009, New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel, Zootaxa 2066, pp. 1-49 : 41-42

Zelotes adderet n. sp.

Figs 89, 90

Type material. Adult male holotype from the surroundings of Adderet , Adullam Reserve, Israel, leg. Tal Levanony, August 2003, pitfall trap ( HUJ 15548). Female unknown.

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. 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. Based on male. The shape of the palpal sclerites with the strong embolus clearly separate Z. adderet from all other Zelotes species.

Distribution. Israel, known only from the type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 89, 90. Zelotes adderet n. sp. ♂, holotype, left palpus. 89. Mesal view. 90. Ventral view.