Trachyzelotes

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
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

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

• Trachyzelotes adriaticus (Caporiacco, 1951) – Italy to China
• Trachyzelotes ansimensis Seo, 2002 – Korea
• Trachyzelotes baiyuensis Xu, 1991 – China
• Trachyzelotes barbatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Mediterranean to Caucasus. Introduced to USA.^[5]
• Trachyzelotes bardiae (Caporiacco, 1928) – Mediterranean
• Trachyzelotes chybyndensis Tuneva & Esyunin, 2002 – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
• Trachyzelotes cumensis (Ponomarev, 1979) – Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
• Trachyzelotes fuscipes (L. Koch, 1866) – Mediterranean, Kazakhstan, China
• Trachyzelotes glossus (Strand, 1915) – Turkey, Israel
• Trachyzelotes holosericeus (Simon, 1878) – Mediterranean
• Trachyzelotes huberti Platnick & Murphy, 1984 – Algeria, Italy, Albania
• Trachyzelotes jaxartensis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Northern Africa to Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran. Introduced to Hawaii, USA, Mexico, South Africa, India, China
• Trachyzelotes kulczynskii (Bösenberg, 1902) – Macedonia, Bulgaria. Introduced to USA, Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, Samoa
• Trachyzelotes lyonneti (Audouin, 1826) – Macaronesia, Mediterranean to Central Asia. Introduced to USA,^[5] Mexico, Peru, Brazil
• Trachyzelotes malkini Platnick & Murphy, 1984 – Romania, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan
• Trachyzelotes manytchensis Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006 – Russia (Europe), Iran
• Trachyzelotes miniglossus Levy, 2009 – Israel, Iran
• Trachyzelotes minutus Crespo, 2010 – Portugal
• Trachyzelotes mutabilis (Simon, 1878) – Mediterranean, Romania
• Trachyzelotes pedestris (C. L. Koch, 1837) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
• Trachyzelotes ravidus (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia
• Trachyzelotes stubbsi Platnick & Murphy, 1984 – Greece, Cyprus