Trachyzelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by H. Lohmander in 1944 as a subgenus of Zelotes,[3] and was raised to genus status in 1967.[4] It has a body length of 3 to 13 millimetres (0.12 to 0.51 in).[2]

Trachyzelotes
T. pedestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Trachyzelotes
Lohmander, 1944[1]
Type species
T. pedestris
(C. L. Koch, 1837)
Species

22, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Simonizelotes Marinaro, 1967[2]

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains twenty-two species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Trachyzelotes Lohmander, 1944". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  2. ^ a b Platnick, N. I.; Murphy, J. A. (1984). "A revision of the spider genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates (2792): 3.
  3. ^ Lohmander, H. (1944). "Vorläufige Spinnennotizen". Arkiv för Zoologi. 35 (A, 16): 1–21.
  4. ^ Marinaro, J.-Y. (1967). "Les araignées d'Afrique du Nord. I. Sur une collection de Drassidae à peigne metatarsal d'Algérie". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 92: 702.
  5. ^ a b "Genus Trachyzelotes". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-05.