Zelotes callidus (Simon, 1878)

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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 .

Figures

Figs. 24 - 38. Figs. 24 - 26: Ozyptila furcula L. Koch, 1882. 24. Male palp of Ozyptila furcula in KOCH (1882); 25. Male palp, ventral view; 26. Idem, lateral view. Figs. 27 - 28. Haplo- drassus parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951). 27. Male palp of Drassus parvulus in KOCH (1882). 28. Male palp of Haplodrassus parvicorpus, specimen from Tarifa. Figs. 29 - 35. Zelotes callidus (Simon, 1878). 29. Epigyne of Zelotes semirufus in KOCH (1882); 30. Epigyne of Zelotes callidus, specimen from Talavan; 31. Vulva; 32. Male palp of Zelotes callidus in SIMON (1914, fig. 298); 33. Male palp, detail; 34. Male palp, ventral view; 35. Male palp, lateral view; Fig. 36. Male palp of Zelotes plumiger L. Koch, 1882 in L. KOCH (1882). Figs. 37 - 38 Phlegra bresnieri (Lucas, 1846). 37. Male palp of Phlegra simoni in L. KOCH (1882); 38. Male palp of Phlegra bresnieri in METZNER (1999).