Zelotes funereus (Dalmas, 1921)
Funerial ground spider
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Gnaphosa lugubris O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873:212 non C. L. Koch, 1839; Gnaphosa funerea Dalmas, 1921; Pterochroa funerea (Dalmas, 1921)
Conservation Status
Missing (White et al., 2019)
Last record: 1 December 1965 (White et al., 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
St. Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dalmas, R. de (1921). Monographie des araignées de la section des Pterotricha (Aran. Gnaphosidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 233-328.
Other references:
Ashmole, P. and Ashmole, M. (2000). St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, U.K.
Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Drassidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 52-62.
Cairns-Wicks, R., Jervois, M. and Kindemba, V. (2016). St. Helena Invertebrate Conservation Strategy 2016-2021. St. Helena National Trust, Environmental Management Division of St. Helena Government, and Buglife.
Grimm, U. (1985). Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 1-318.
Key, R., Fowler, L. and Pryce, D. (2021). Terrestrial & freshwater invertebrates of St Helena. Newbury: NatureBureau.
Melliss, J. C. (1875). St Helena: a physical, historical, and topographical description of the island, including it geology, fauna, flora and meteorology. London: L. Reeve & Co.
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873: 210-227, pl. 24.
Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. and Ashmole, P. (2024). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218
White, L., Pryce, D., Wilkins, V. L. and Dutton, A.-J. (2019). Gnaphosa funerea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T67527490A67527494. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T67527490A67527494.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.