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Zelotes captator

Zelotes captator is a species of Southeast Asian ground spider. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887, and has only been found in Myanmar. In 2022, it was moved from the monotypic genus Aracus to the genus Zelotes.

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Zelotes captator
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Zelotes
Species:
Z. captator
Binomial name
Zelotes captator
(Thorell, 1887)1

Zelotes captator is a species of Southeast Asian ground spider. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887,2 and has only been found in Myanmar.1 In 2022, it was moved from the monotypic genus Aracus to the genus Zelotes.

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  1. "Gen. Aracus Thorell, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Thorell, T. (1887). "Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 25: 5–417.