Marinarozelotes

Marinarozelotes
male M. barbatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Marinarozelotes Ponomarev, 2020 [1]
Type species
Melanophora barbata (L. Koch, 1866)
Species
23, see text

Marinarozelotes is a genus of ground spiders first described by A. V. Ponomarev and V. Y. Shmatko in 2020. ^[2] The type species, Marinarozelotes barbatus, was originally described under the name " Melanophora barbata". ^[3]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 23 species: ^[1]

• Marinarozelotes achaemenes Zamani, Chatzaki, Esyunin & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
• Marinarozelotes adriaticus (Caporiacco, 1951) – Italy to China
• Marinarozelotes ansimensis (Seo, 2002) – Korea
• Marinarozelotes baiyuensis (Xu, 1991) – China
• Marinarozelotes barbatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Mediterranean to Caucasus. Introduced to United States (type species)
• Marinarozelotes bardiae (Caporiacco, 1928) – Mediterranean
• Marinarozelotes chybyndensis (Tuneva & Esyunin, 2002) – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
• Marinarozelotes cumensis (Ponomarev, 1979) – Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
• Marinarozelotes fuscipes (L. Koch, 1866) – Mediterranean, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China
• Marinarozelotes glossus (Strand, 1915) – Turkey, Israel
• Marinarozelotes holosericeus (Simon, 1878) – Mediterranean
• Marinarozelotes huberti (Platnick & Murphy, 1984) – Algeria, Italy, Albania
• Marinarozelotes jaxartensis (Kroneberg, 1875) – Egypt, Cyprus, Russia (Europe), Caucasus, Israel, Oman, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia. Introduced to Hawaii, United States, Mexico, Ascension Is. Senegal, South Africa, India, China, Japan
• Marinarozelotes kulczynskii (Bösenberg, 1902) – North Macedonia, Bulgaria. Introduced to United States, Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Galapagos, Japan, Samoa
• Marinarozelotes lyonneti (Audouin, 1826) – Macaronesia, Mediterranean to Central Asia. Introduced to United States, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, St. Helena
• Marinarozelotes malkini (Platnick & Murphy, 1984) – Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Turkey, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan
• Marinarozelotes manytchensis (Ponomarev & Tsvetkov, 2006) – Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
• Marinarozelotes miniglossus (Levy, 2009) – Israel, Iran
• Marinarozelotes minutus (Crespo, 2010) – Portugal
• Marinarozelotes mutabilis (Simon, 1878) – Mediterranean, Romania
• Marinarozelotes ponticus Ponomarev, 2022 – Russia (Europe)
• Marinarozelotes ravidus (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia
• Marinarozelotes stubbsi (Platnick & Murphy, 1984) – Greece, Cyprus, Israel

See also

• Trachyzelotes
• Zelotes

References

1. "Gen. Marinarozelotes Ponomarev, 2020". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
2. Ponomarev, A. V.; Shmatko, V. Y. (2020). "A review of spiders of the genera Trachyzeloes[sic] Lohmander, 1944 and Marinarozelotes Ponomarev, gen. n. (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Caucasus". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 16 (1): 125–139. doi: 10.23885/181433262020161-125139 . S2CID   226680769.
3. Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden [The Arachnid family of the Drassids] (in German). Nürnberg. pp. 1–304.

Further reading

• Zamani, A.; Chatzaki, M.; Esyunin, S. L.; et al. (2021). "One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations". European Journal of Taxonomy (751): 68–114. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1381 . S2CID   236274726.

• Suzuki, Y.; Serita, R. (2021). "Okinawa-jima de saishū shita kumo" [Spiders collected on Okinawa Island]. Kishidaia (in Japanese). 118: 230–236.

• Suzuki, Y. (2020). "Tairikukemurigumo o Hyōgo ken de saishū" [Trachyzelotes jaxartensis collected in Hyogo Prefecture]. Kishidaia (in Japanese). 116: 59–61.

• Boucherit, S.; Bouragba, N.; Douaoui, A.; et al. (2020). "Araignées de la plaine alluviale du Haut-Chéliff (Algérie), avec la citation de quelques espèces nouvelles ou rares pour l'Algérie (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Miturgidae)" [Spiders of the alluvial plain of Haut-Chéliff (Algeria), with the citation of some new or rare species for Algeria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Miturgidae)]. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging (in French). 35 (1–2): 60–70.

• Zamani, A.; Dimitrov, D.; Weiss, I.; et al. (2020). "New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII" . Arachnology. 18 (6): 569–591. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.569.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Marinarozelotes at iNaturalist