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, this genus includes 23 species:[1]

  • Marinarozelotes achaemenes Zamani, Chatzaki, Esyunin & Marusik, 2021Iran
  • 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

References

  1. ^ a b "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.

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