Zelotibia

Zelotibia
Zelotibia fosseyae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Zelotibia Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 [1]
Type species
Z. mitella Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005
Species
22, see text

Zelotibia is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by A. Russell-Smith & J. A. Murphy in 2005. ^[2]

Species

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

• Zelotibia acicula Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo
• Zelotibia angelica Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Burundi
• Zelotibia bicornuta Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Tanzania
• Zelotibia cultella Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo
• Zelotibia curvifemur Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Burundi
• Zelotibia dolabra Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo
• Zelotibia filiformis Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo, Burundi
• Zelotibia flexuosa Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo, Rwanda
• Zelotibia fosseyae Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Burundi
• Zelotibia johntony Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Congo
• Zelotibia kaibos Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Kenya
• Zelotibia kanama Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Rwanda
• Zelotibia kibira Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Burundi
• Zelotibia lejeunei Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Congo
• Zelotibia major Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Burundi
• Zelotibia mitella Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 (type) – Congo
• Zelotibia papillata Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo, Rwanda
• Zelotibia paucipapillata Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo, Burundi
• Zelotibia scobina Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo
• Zelotibia simpula Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo, Kenya
• Zelotibia subsessa Nzigidahera & Jocqué, 2009 – Burundi
• Zelotibia supercilia Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005 – Congo

References

1. "Gen. Zelotibia Russell-Smith & Murphy, 2005". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-07.
2. Russell-Smith, A.; Murphy, J. A. (2005). "Zelotibia, a new zelotine spider genus from central Africa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 2: 103–122.