Zelotes lehavim n. sp.

Figs 79, 80

Type material. Adult male holotype from Lehavim, southern foothills of Judea, Israel, leg. Iris Musli, March 2005, pitfall trap (HUJ 15505). Female unknown.

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition referring to the type locality.

Description. Small zelotine with brown carapace, black opisthosoma and barely marked dorsal scutum. Legs yellow with black femora, patellae and tibiae. Small eyes; AME smallest, ALE largest, PME and PLE subequal and separated from each other. Chelicerae with 3 minute promarginal teeth.

Male. Measurements (holotype): total length 2.8; carapace length 1.3, width 0.95, index 1.37; labial index 1.44; clypeal index 3.0; MOQ index 10.8; legs length: I 2.9, II 2.5, III 2.0, IV 3.2; patella-tibia index 0.84.

Palpus. Very small with curved terminal apophysis extending into bifid, black protrusion (Fig. 79); pointed, spur-like tegular apophysis projects basally, along ectal side (Fig. 80).

Diagnosis. Based on male. The male palpus of Z. lehavim with the peculiar terminal apophysis, the bifid projection and the ectal tegular apophysis is easily distinguished from all other Zelotes species.

Distribution. Israel, known only from the type locality.

Comment. The bifid projection of the palpus may point toward Camillina but the eye alignment with the spaced PME conforms to Zelotes .