A new species of spiders of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the North-East Pre-Caspian region

Abstract

A new spider species Zelotes abdurakhmanovi sp. n. (Gnaphosidae) is described from the North-East Pre-Caspian region (Tyub Karagan Cape, Kulaly Island, Kazakhstan). This new species belongs to the puritanus species group and close to Mediterranean Z. laetus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) by the structure of the epigyne and Z. gussakovskyi Charitonov, 1951, described from Tajikistan by the structure of male palp. A new species characterized by the narrow, long, parallel-sided plate of the epigyne (not liguliform as in Z. laetus); the most part of embolus is located on the dorsal side of the tegulum; the loop of the embolus forms almost a semicircle, covering almost the entire width of the distal part of the tegulum (other species of this group have the loop much narrower and shifted to the edge of the tegulum)

Keywords

• Aranei
• Zelotes
• new species
• North-East Caspian region