Trachyzelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by H. Lohmander in 1944 as a subgenus of Zelotes, and was raised to genus status in 1967. It has a body length of 3 to 13 millimetres (0.12 to 0.51in).
Species
As of May2019[update] it contains twenty-two species:
Trachyzelotes jaxartensis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Northern Africa to Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran. Introduced to Hawaii, US, Mexico, South Africa, India, China
12Platnick, N. I.; Murphy, J. A. (1984). "A revision of the spider genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". American Museum Novitates (2792): 3.
↑Lohmander, H. (1944). "Vorläufige Spinnennotizen". Arkiv för Zoologi. 35 (A, 16): 1–21.
↑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.
