Zelotes callidus Simon 1878
Creators: name: Bosmans
name: Van Keer, 
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Zelotes
Zelotes callidus

description: <i>Zelotes callidus</i> (Simon, 1878) (Figs 29-35) <i>Prosthesima callida</i> Simon, 1878: 91 (descr. male, non female = <i>Z. caucasius</i>). <i>Prosthesima semirufa</i> L. Koch, 1882: 636, pl. 20, fig 15(descr. female); <b>new synonymy.</b> <i>Zelotes callidus</i>; Simon, 1882: 37(descr. male, non female); Simon, 1914: 219 (descr. male, non female). <i>Zelotes ruscinensis</i> Simon, 1914: 157, 169, fig. 259, 346 (descr. male, female); Senglet, 2004: 104, figs 47-50 (descr. male, female); <b>new synonymy.</b> <i>Zelotes circumspectus</i>; Denis 1935: 117 (descr. female); misidentification. <i>Zelotes lugens</i> Denis 1941: 162 (correction of the citation of <i>Z. circumspectus</i> from 1935); Di Franco 1997: 258 (synonymy by SENGLET 2004). <i>Zelotes adolescentulus</i> Denis 1952: 118 (synonymy by SENGLET 2004). <i>Zelotes massiliensis</i> Soyer, 1967: 278 (synonymy by SEN- GLET 2004). <i>Zelotes semirufus</i>; Senglet, 2011: 518, figs 2-17, 74 (synonym with <i>Z. ruscinensis</i>). <b>Type material</b> Holotype male of <i>Prosthesima</i> (= <i>Zelotes</i>) <i>callida</i> from Corsica, Ajaccio (MNHNP, not examined). Holotype female of <i>Prosthesima</i> (= <i>Zelotes</i>) <i>semirufa</i> from Spain, Baleares, Menorca, Braun leg.; not examined, unavailable in ZMB. Holotype female of <i>Zelotes lugens</i> from France, Var, Vallon de Port Cros (MNHNP, examined). Holotype male of <i>Zelotes adolescentulus</i> from Morocco, Skhirat (MNHNP, examined). <b>Comparative material examined</b> SPAIN. Caceres: Torrejon el Rubio (N 39°46’15’’ W 6°4’12’’), 270m, 4 males 2 females, pitfalls, 15.VII-23. VIII.1996, U. Stengele leg. (CRB); Talavan, Finca el Baldio (N 39°43’12’’ W 6°19’4’’), 370m, 10 males 2 females, pitfalls, 10.VII-5.IX.1996, U. Stengele leg. (CRB). Granada: Santa Fé (N 37°11’31’’ W 3°45’17’’), 700m, 1 female, litter in irrigated <i>Populus</i> forest, 9.VIII.1991, R. Bosmans leg. (CRB). Malaga: Coin, along Rio Grande N 36°41’29’’ W 4°48’22’’), 110m, 1 female, stones in grassland, 15.VII.1991, R. Bosmans leg. (CRB). Murcia: Puerto Lumbreras (N 37°29’37’’ W 1°51’9’’), 530m, 1 female, under stone, 14.VII.1991, R. Bosmans leg. (CRB). – ALGERIA. Oran: Mers el Hadjad (N 35°47’52’’ W 0°9’51’’), 2 males, litter in garden, IX.1988, R. Bosmans leg. (CRB). – MOROCCO. Essaouira: Ounara E. (N 31° 32’33’’ W 9°30’47’’), 250m, 1 male, stones in garganier steppe, 8.VII.1999, R. Bosmans leg. (CRB). <b>Comments</b> The discovery of large series of <i>Zelotes callidus</i> in central Spain – including males and females – allows us to resolve a complicated case of synonymy. The males from Central Spain could be identified as <i>Zelotes callidus</i>, based on the original figures of SIMON (1878, fig. 23; 1914, figs 297-299); a species originally described from Corsica. Characteristic are the two anterior teeth in the bulb, compare Figs 32- 33). The females did not correspond with Simon’s figures of <i>Z. callidus</i>, which corroborates the observation of SENGLET (2004) that the females described as <i>Z. callidus</i> by SIMON (1878, fig. 24; 1914, fig. 354), JÉZÉQUEL (1962, fig. 29) and LEDOUX (1972, fig. 1) all illustrate the epigyne or vulva of <i>Zelotes caucasius</i> (L. Koch, 1866). The females from Central Spain could be identified as <i>Zelotes semirufus</i> (L. Koch, 1882) described from Menorca. KOCH ’s figure of <i>Zelotes semirufus</i> (Fig. 29) shows an epigyne with a median plate that is slightly longer than wide, with an open posterior margin, and comparable position of the rounded spermathecae (Fig. 30). Perhaps the mismatching of the sexes of <i>Z. callidus</i> confused Simon in 1878, because in 1914, he described the species again from the south of France as <i>Z. ruscinensis</i>. Recently, this latter species was redescribed by SENGLET (2004); who further pointed out that <i>Zelotes adolescentulus</i> Denis, 1952, <i>Z. lugens</i> Denis, 1941 and <i>Z massiliensis</i> Soyer, 1967 are its junior synonyms. All of these taxa now enter into the synonymy of <i>Zelotes callidus</i>. <b>Distribution</b> Recorded from Morocco, Algeria, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. DRENSKY (1915) cited the species erroneously from Bulgaria; it was in fact <i>Zelotes caucasius</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Bosmans &amp; Van Keer, 2012, On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae), pp. 5-16 in Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43 (1)</i> on page 12, DOI: 10.5431/aramit4306, http://zenodo.org/record/556090
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