Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 )

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 301-336 : 311

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13618730
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scientific name	Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 )
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Zelotes laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) View in CoL

Zelotes inauratus View in CoL ; Marinaro 1968: 695.

Material examined: BERRIANE: Balouh, 1 ♀, 10.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 24.IV.2021 . Sidi Mbarek, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 11.II.2021; 1 ♂, 9.IV.2021 . DHAYET BENDHAHOUA: Grazil, hand collecting, 2 ♂, 15.II.2022; 1 ♀, 15.III.2022 ; 1 ♂, 25.III.2022; Oumdjer, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 5.II.2022; 1 ♀, 25.II.2022 ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 15.III.2022. EL ATTEUF: Palm grove of El Atteuf, pitfall traps, 2 ♂, 18.IV.2015. EL GUERRARA: Aghzou, pitfall traps 1 ♂, 3.III.2020.

Previous records in Algeria: Until now, it is known only from Still in El Megaier ( Marinaro 1968).

Distribution: North Africa to Senegal and Kenya, Portugal, France, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran. Introduced to Hawaii, USA, Mexico, Peru, Ascension Islands ( World Spider Catalog 2024).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Gnaphosidae
Genus	Zelotes