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Zelotes sula Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955

FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
    Genus: Zelotes Gistel, 1848

        Species: Zelotes sula Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955

Common Names

Family Common Name:  stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:   YT CO MT NH
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: 


Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)

Feeding Guild:  ground runners
Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:  (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Seasonality of Specimen Records:

   seasonality
Image(s) of Habitus:  (images not yet available)

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:  (image not yet available)

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:  (image not yet available)

Synonyms and Chresonyms

Zelotes sula Lowrie & Gertsch 1955
Zelotes sula Platnick & Shadab 1983
Zelotes sula Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1988
Zelotes sula Platnick & Dondale 1992
Zelotes sula Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1996
Zelotes sula Paquin & Dupérré 2003
Zelotes sula Kovblyuk 2006

Taxonomic References

Kovblyuk, M. M. 2006. Zelotes kukushkini sp. n. (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) and close related species from Palaearctic. Vestn. Zool. 40: 205-217.

Lowrie, D. C. & W. J. Gertsch. 1955. A list of the spiders of the Grand Teton Park area, with descriptions of some new North American spiders. Am. Mus. Novit. 1736: 1-29.

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1996. Additional data on the spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of Asia. In ntomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 114-130 (

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1988. Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province). Ent. Obozr. 67: 204-217.

Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.

Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.

Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1983. A revision of the American spiders of the genus Zelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 174: 97-192.

Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/GNAPHOSIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848‡‡

Z. aiken Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. anglo Gertsch & Riechert, 1976 ...............USA, Mexico
Z. anthereus Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
Z. atrocaeruleus (Simon, 1878) ...............Palearctic
Z. cayucos Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. clivicola (L. Koch, 1870) ...............Palearctic
Z. cruz Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. discens Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
Z. duplex Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Canada
Z. exiguoides Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA, Canada
Z. exiguus (Müller & Schenkel, 1895) ...............Palearctic
Z. florodes Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. foresta Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. fratris Chamberlin, 1920 ...............Holarctic
Z. funestus (Keyserling, 1887) ...............USA
Z. gabriel Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. gertschi Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA, Mexico
Z. griswoldi Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. grovus Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. gynethus Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA
Z. hentzi Barrows, 1945 ...............USA, Canada
Z. icenoglei Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. inglenook Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. josephine Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. laccus (Barrows, 1919) ...............USA, Canada
Z. laetus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) ...............Mediterranean, USA, Mexico, Peru, Hawaii
Z. lasalanus Chamberlin, 1928 ...............North America
Z. lattreillei (Simon, 1878) ...............Palearctic
Z. longipes (L. Koch, 1866) ...............Palearctic
Z. lymnophilus Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
Z. mesa Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA, Mexico
Z. monachus Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
Z. monodens Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
Z. mundus (Kulczyn'ski, 1897) ...............Palearctic
Z. nannodes Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
Z. nilicola (O. P.-Cambridge, 1874) ...............Mediterranean, Canary Is., USA
Z. ocala Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. perditus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
Z. petrophilus Chamberlin, 1936 ...............USA
Z. piercy Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. pinos Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. pseustes Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Mexico
Z. pullus (Bryant, 1936) ...............USA
Z. puritanus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............Holarctic
Z. rainier Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. schmitzi (Kulczynski, 1899) ...............Spain, Madeira, Canary Is., USA
Z. segrex (Simon, 1878) ...............Palearctic
Z. skinnerensis Platnick & Prentice, 1999 ...............USA
Z. subterraneus (C. L. Koch, 1833) ...............Palearctic
Z. tenuis (L. Koch, 1866) ...............Mediterranean, USA
Z. tulare Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. tuobus Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA, Canada
Z. viola Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA
Z. yosemite Platnick & Shadab, 1983 ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution