Civizelotes Explained

Civizelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by A. Senglet in 2012.^[1]

Species

it contains twelve species:^[2]

• Civizelotes aituar Esyunin & Tuneva, 2020 – Russia (Europe)
• Civizelotes akmon Chatzaki, 2021 – Greece
• Civizelotes caucasius (L. Koch, 1866) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China
• Civizelotes civicus (Simon, 1878) (type) – Europe, Madeira, Morocco
• Civizelotes dentatidens (Simon, 1914) – Spain, France, Italy (mainland, Sardinia)
• Civizelotes gracilis (Canestrini, 1868) – Central and South-Eastern Europe, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia), Turkey
• Civizelotes ibericus Senglet, 2012 – Spain, France
• Civizelotes medianoides Senglet, 2012 – Spain
• Civizelotes medianus (Denis, 1936) – Spain, Andorra, France
• Civizelotes pygmaeus (Miller, 1943) – Europe to Kazakhstan
• Civizelotes solstitialis (Levy, 1998) – Italy (Sardinia), Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan
• Civizelotes tibichaetoforus Tuneva & Kuzmin, 2016 – Russia (Europe)

Notes and References

1. Senglet. A.. 2012. Civizelotes new genus, and other new or little known Zelotinae (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 501–528. 119. 10.5962/bhl.part.150203 . free.
2. 2021. Gen. Civizelotes Senglet, 2012. live. World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. 5 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312051623/http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/917 . 2017-03-12 .