Coelotes Blackwall, 1841

Zonstein, Sergei & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, A survey of Brignoliolus Ovchinnikov, 1999 stat. rev. (Araneae, Agelenidae) with the description of a new species from Israel, Zootaxa 5541 (2), pp. 215-226 : 216

Genus Coelotes Blackwall, 1841

Coelotes Blackwall, 1841: 618

(type Coelotes saxatilis Blackwall, 1841 considered as junior synonym of C. atropos (Walckenaer, 1830)) .

Speleocicurina Kishida in Komatsu, 1942: 57, 70

(type S. cavicola Kishida, 1942 synonymized by Ono & Ogata (2018)).

Urobia Komatsu, 1957: 67

(type U. hexommata Komatsu, 1957 synonymized by Lehtinen (1967)).

Comments. The junior synonyms of Coelotes most likely represent separate genera. Their representatives were collected in caves. S peleocicurina cavicola has never been illustrated and its types seem to be lost. Urobia hexommata is known only from the holotype female and unlike all other Coelotinae , this species has six eyes. The habitus and the structure of the male and female copulatory organs in the generotype, C. atropos , as shown in Figs 1–7 . The structure of the spinnerets in the related European species, C. terrestris is shown in Fig. 8 .

Distribution. Coelotes , with 165 named species is restricted to the Palaearctic and Southeast Asia ( WSC 2024). Only one misplaced species is known from Mexico ( WSC 2024). Most of the species (115) are restricted to Far East Asia, 50 of them are known in China, and 65 in Japan ( WSC 2024). According to WSC (2024), six species are distributed in South Asia and 24 in Europe and Anatolia. Fourteen species are known in the Caucasus and Middle Asia and only one is in the southern Mediterranean, in Lebanon.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Coelotes atropos (Walckenaer, 1830) (1–7) and C. terrestris (Wider, 1834) (8), male (1–4) and females (5–8). 1, 5 habitus, dorsal; 2 palp, retrolateral; 3 same, ventral; 4 same, prolateral; 6 epigyne, ventral; 7 vulva, dorsal; 8 spinnerets, ventral. Abbreviations: Am anterior margin of fovea; Cf cymbial fold; Cl colulus; Co conductor; Eb base of embolus; Et tooth of epigyne; Fo fovea; Ra retrolateral tibial apophysis; Ta tegular apophysis; Te tegulum; Va ventral tibial apophysis.