Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Zelotes

Zelotes fuligineus (Purcell, 1907)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-02-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028208]
  • Distribution: Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; f (14604) of Zelotes fuliginoides (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; f (4343) of Zelotes simoni (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; f (8589) of Zelotes montanus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 1m 3f (9277) (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Paralectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 1m (150.601) of Zelotes aculeatus [N.B.: f lectotype is Zelotes invidus] (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Taxonomic references
Melanophora fuliginea Purcell, 1907: 327, pl. 15, f. 44-46 (Dmf).
Melanophora simoni Purcell, 1907: 329, pl. 15, f. 49 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028392].
Melanophora montana Purcell, 1907: 329, pl. 15, f. 51 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028310].
Melanophora aculeata Purcell, 1908: 237 (m; misidentified per FitzPatrick, 2007: 102).
Prosthesima montana Tullgren, 1910: 110, pl. 1, f. 24 (f).
Melanophora fuliginoides Hewitt, 1915b: 101, f. 8a (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028209].
Zelotes fuligineus Tucker, 1923: 359.
Zelotes montanus Tucker, 1923: 364.
Zelotes simoni Tucker, 1923: 374.
Zelotes fuliginoides Tucker, 1923: 379.
Zelotes montanus Kauri, 1950: 75, f. 9 (f).
Zelotes fuligineus FitzPatrick, 2007: 102, f. 3-6 (mf, S of Zelotes fuliginoides, Z. montanus and Z. simoni).
Zelotes fuligineus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E: 19, p. 19: 6 f., p. 20: 1 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021E). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 4 (Z). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7197783 download pdf -- Show included taxa

FitzPatrick, M. J. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of Zelotes (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(3): 97-172. doi:10.13156/arac.2011.14.3.97 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hewitt, J. (1915b). Descriptions of new South African Arachnida. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown 3: 70-106. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kauri, H. (1950). On some South African spiders and harvest-spiders. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Förhandlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Physiographic Society at Lund) 20(6): 64-79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi:10.1080/00222930709487339 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1908). Araneae (I). In: Schultze, L. (ed.): Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Erster Band: Systematik und Tiergeographie. Zweite Lieferung. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 13: 203-246, pl. 11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E n/a