{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Urozelotes rusticus 57219659.jpg | image_caption = ''U. rusticus'' | image2 = Urozelotes rusticus 31048047.jpg | image2_caption = ''U. rusticus'' |taxon=Urozelotes |authority=Mello-Leitão, 1938<ref name=wsc/> |type_species=''U. rusticus'' |type_species_authority=(L. Koch, 1872) |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=5, see text }}
'''''Urozelotes''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938.<ref name=Mell1938 />
==Description== {{see also|Glossary of spider terms}} Total length is 5-8 mm. The carapace is oval in dorsal view, widest between coxae II and III, truncated anteriorly and posteriorly, and abruptly narrowed opposite the pedipalps. It is light orange, darkest anteriorly, with numerous long, thin, black setae along the midline and edge of the posterior declivity. The cephalic area is flattened with a long, longitudinal thoracic groove. The anterior eye row is very slightly recurved, while the posterior row is very slightly procurved. The legs are uniformly light orange, with all tarsi and anterior metatarsi lightly scopulate.<ref name="dippenaar2021" />
==Species== {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes six species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Urozelotes clarus'' <small>(Wunderlich, 2023)</small> – Portugal * ''Urozelotes kabenge'' <small>FitzPatrick, 2005</small> – Zambia * ''Urozelotes mysticus'' <small>Platnick & Murphy, 1984</small> – Italy * ''Urozelotes patulusus'' <small>Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018</small> – India * ''Urozelotes rusticus'' <small>(L. Koch, 1872)</small> – Probably native to Europe/Mediterranean, temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, tropical Africa, Australia (type species) * ''Urozelotes trifidus'' <small>Tuneva, 2003</small> – France, Russia (Europe) {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1001 | title=Genus Urozelotes | publisher=World Spider Catalog | accessdate=25 September 2025}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2021">{{cite book | last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman | first1=A.S. | last2=Haddad | first2=C.R. | last3=Foord | first3=S.H. | last4=Lotz | first4=L.N. | year=2021 | title=The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 3 (T-X). Version 1 | publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide | pages=30 | doi=10.5281/zenodo.7197741}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name=Mell1938>{{cite journal |last=Mello-Leitão |first=C. F. de |year=1938 |title=Algunas arañas nuevas de la Argentina |journal=Revista del Museo de La Plata |pages=89–118 |volume=1 |series=New Series}}{{clarify|reason=issue?|date=April 2021}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Cosmopolitan spiders Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
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