Zelotes callidus Simon 1878
| Main Authors: | Bosmans, Van Keer |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2012
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https://zenodo.org/record/6178789 |
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- Zelotes callidus (Simon, 1878) (Figs 29-35) Prosthesima callida Simon, 1878: 91 (descr. male, non female = Z. caucasius). Prosthesima semirufa L. Koch, 1882: 636, pl. 20, fig 15(descr. female); new synonymy. Zelotes callidus; Simon, 1882: 37(descr. male, non female); Simon, 1914: 219 (descr. male, non female). Zelotes ruscinensis Simon, 1914: 157, 169, fig. 259, 346 (descr. male, female); Senglet, 2004: 104, figs 47-50 (descr. male, female); new synonymy. Zelotes circumspectus; Denis 1935: 117 (descr. female); misidentification. Zelotes lugens Denis 1941: 162 (correction of the citation of Z. circumspectus from 1935); Di Franco 1997: 258 (synonymy by SENGLET 2004). Zelotes adolescentulus Denis 1952: 118 (synonymy by SENGLET 2004). Zelotes massiliensis Soyer, 1967: 278 (synonymy by SEN- GLET 2004). Zelotes semirufus; Senglet, 2011: 518, figs 2-17, 74 (synonym with Z. ruscinensis). Type material Holotype male of Prosthesima (= Zelotes) callida from Corsica, Ajaccio (MNHNP, not examined). Holotype female of Prosthesima (= Zelotes) semirufa from Spain, Baleares, Menorca, Braun leg.; not examined, unavailable in ZMB. Holotype female of Zelotes lugens from France, Var, Vallon de Port Cros (MNHNP, examined). Holotype male of Zelotes adolescentulus from Morocco, Skhirat (MNHNP, examined). Comparative material examined 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 Populus 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). Comments The discovery of large series of Zelotes callidus 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 Zelotes callidus, 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 Z. callidus, which corroborates the observation of SENGLET (2004) that the females described as Z. callidus by SIMON (1878, fig. 24; 1914, fig. 354), JÉZÉQUEL (1962, fig. 29) and LEDOUX (1972, fig. 1) all illustrate the epigyne or vulva of Zelotes caucasius (L. Koch, 1866). The females from Central Spain could be identified as Zelotes semirufus (L. Koch, 1882) described from Menorca. KOCH ’s figure of Zelotes semirufus (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 Z. callidus confused Simon in 1878, because in 1914, he described the species again from the south of France as Z. ruscinensis. Recently, this latter species was redescribed by SENGLET (2004); who further pointed out that Zelotes adolescentulus Denis, 1952, Z. lugens Denis, 1941 and Z massiliensis Soyer, 1967 are its junior synonyms. All of these taxa now enter into the synonymy of Zelotes callidus. Distribution Recorded from Morocco, Algeria, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. DRENSKY (1915) cited the species erroneously from Bulgaria; it was in fact Zelotes caucasius.
- Published as part of Bosmans & 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) on page 12, DOI: 10.5431/aramit4306, http://zenodo.org/record/556090