Zelotes golanensis, Levy, Gershom, 2009

Levy, Gershom, 2009, New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel, Zootaxa 2066, pp. 1-49 : 37-38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186952
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222055
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0E2987C9-7914-0C08-3DF6-FACFFCF4FF17
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Zelotes golanensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Zelotes golanensis View in CoL n. sp.

Figs 81, 82 View FIGURES 81, 82

Type material. Adult female holotype from Ramat Magshimim , southern Golan , Israel, leg. Rakefet Sharon, May 1998, pitfall trap ( HUJ 15523). Male unknown.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality.

Description. Carapace and legs brown, opisthosoma dark grey dorsally, light ventrally; body and legs covered with bristles. Small eyes, AME smallest, all other subequal; PME irregularly shaped. Chelicerae with 4 pro- and 1 retromarginal teeth.

Female. Measurements (holotype): total length 4.5; carapace length 1.5, width 1.2, index 1.25; labial index 1.2; clypeal index 1.25; MOQ index 8.8; legs length: I 3.6, II 3.3, III 2.8, IV 4.2; patella-tibia index 0.93.

Epigynum . Small epigynal plate bordered anteriorly by black contiguous caps. Elongated narrow median depression encircled by thick, brown wide rims ( Fig. 81 View FIGURES 81, 82 ); inner expanded organs partly discernible through integument posteriorly. Tubular spermathecae encircle inner space terminating at center with black round swellings ( Fig. 82 View FIGURES 81, 82 ).

Diagnosis. Based on female. The shape of the narrow median depression and the peculiar trajectory of the spermathecal tubes are diagnostic characters that separate Z. golanensis readily from all Zelotes species. Distribution. Israel, known only from the type locality.