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Aelurillus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).




Description


Species of the genus Aelurillus are typically about 7 mm long in females, and up to five mm in males. They are stout, squat-shaped and rather furry, with females often uniformly mottled sandy brown, while males are often black, sometimes with a pattern and with light, annulated legs.




Habits


Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy).
A Southeast Asian species of the genus Aelurillus has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it.
They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low vegetation.




Distribution


Species of the genus Aelurillus occur in the Palaearctic and Africa, with a few species known from India (A. improvisus, A. minimontanus) and Sri Lanka (A. kronestedti, A. quadrimaculatus). Aelurillus subfestivus is found in Japan.




Species


The following species are recognised in the genus Aelurillus:

Aelurillus aeruginosus (Simon, 1871) – Mediterranean
Aelurillus afghanus Azarkina, 2006 – Afghanistan
Aelurillus alboclypeus Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015 – Turkey
Aelurillus ambiguus (Denis, 1966) – Libya
Aelurillus andreevae Nenilin, 1984 – Central Asia
Aelurillus angularis Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
Aelurillus ater (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
Aelurillus balearus Azarkina, 2006 – Canary Islands, Balearic Islands
Aelurillus basseleti (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria, Tunisia
Aelurillus blandus (Simon, 1871) – Greece, Crete
Aelurillus bokerinus Prószynski, 2003 – Israel
Aelurillus bosmansi Azarkina, 2006 – Spain
Aelurillus brutus Wesołowska, 1996 – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus catherinae Prószynski, 2000 – Egypt
Aelurillus catus Simon, 1886 – Senegal
Aelurillus cognatus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon
Aelurillus concolor Kulczynski, 1901 – Macedonia, Iran, Central Asia
Aelurillus conveniens (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Egypt, Israel, Syria
Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002 – Crete
Aelurillus cristatopalpus Simon, 1902 – South Africa
Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina, 2006 – Cyprus
Aelurillus deltshevi Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015 – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan
Aelurillus desertus (Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010) – United Arab Emirates
Aelurillus dorthesi (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt
Aelurillus dubatolovi Azarkina, 2003 – Central Asia
Aelurillus faragallai Prószynski, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Aelurillus galinae Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
Aelurillus gershomi Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
Aelurillus guecki Metzner, 1999 – Greece
Aelurillus helvenacius Logunov, 1993 – Mongolia
Aelurillus hirtipes Denis, 1960 – North Africa
Aelurillus improvisus Azarkina, 2002 – India
Aelurillus jerusalemicus Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
Aelurillus khorasanicus Azarkina & Mirshamsi, 2014 – Iran
Aelurillus kochi Roewer, 1951 – Greece, Israel, Syria
Aelurillus kopetdaghi Wesołowska, 1996 – Turkmenistan
Aelurillus kronestedti Azarkina, 2004 – Sri Lanka
Aelurillus laniger Logunov & Marusik, 2000 – Macedonia, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus latebricola Spassky, 1941 – Tajikistan
Aelurillus leipoldae (Metzner, 1999) – Crete
Aelurillus logunovi Azarkina, 2004 – Afghanistan, Pakistan
Aelurillus lopadusae Cantarella, 1983 – Italy, Algeria
Aelurillus lucasi Roewer, 1951 – Canary Islands, Salvages
Aelurillus luctuosus (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean to Turkmenistan
Aelurillus lutosus (Tyschchenko, 1965) – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Aelurillus marusiki Azarkina, 2002 – Iran
Aelurillus minimontanus Azarkina, 2002 – India
Aelurillus mirabilis Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
Aelurillus m-nigrum Kulczynski, 1891 – Palearctic
Aelurillus madagascariensis Azarkina, 2009 – Madagascar
Aelurillus marusiki Azarkina, 2002 – Iran
Aelurillus minimontanus Azarkina, 2002 – India
Aelurillus minutus Azarkina, 2002 – Syria, Eritrea
Aelurillus mirabilis Wesołowska, 2006 Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
Aelurillus monardi (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
Aelurillus murphyorum Azarkina, 2022 – Kenya
Aelurillus nabataeus Prószynski, 2003 – Israel
Aelurillus nenilini Azarkina, 2002 – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus numidicus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
Aelurillus plumipes (Thorell, 1875) – Algeria, Tunisia
Aelurillus politiventris (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece to Israel
Aelurillus quadrimaculatus Simon, 1889 – India, Sri Lanka
Aelurillus rugatus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania
Aelurillus russellsmithi Azarkina, 2009 – Ivory Coast
Aelurillus schembrii Cantarella, 1982 – Sicily, Malta
Aelurillus simplex (Herman, 1879) – Hungary
Aelurillus spider monkey – Asia
Aelurillus spinicrus (Simon, 1871) – Morocco
Aelurillus steinmetzi Metzner, 1999 – Greece
Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
Aelurillus subfestivus Saito, 1934 – Japan
Aelurillus thailandicus Azarkina, 2019 – Thailand
Aelurillus tumidulus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
Aelurillus unitibialis Azarkina, 2002 – Iran
Aelurillus v-insignitus (Clerck, 1757) – Palearctic
Aelurillus v-insignitus morulus (Simon, 1937) – France
Aelurillus v-insignitus obsoletus Kulczynski, 1891 – Eastern Europe
Aelurillus westi Azarkina & Zamani, 2019 – Iran




References



Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.




Further reading


Li, D., Jackson, R.R. & Harland, D.P (1999). Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Aelurillus aeruginosus, A. cognatus and A. kochi, ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Israel. Isr. J. Zool 45: 341-.
Azarkina, G.N. (2004): Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 from Pakistan and Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(2): 49-52
Szűts, T. & Azarkina, G. (2002): Redescription of Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 94: 209-216. PDF




External links



Short description of Aelurillus (with drawings)
Redescription of Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 (PDF)
Photographs of A. monardi Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
Photograph of A. aeruginosus

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aelurillus schembrii
• Aelurillus brutus
• Aelurillus cognatus
• Aelurillus helvenacius
• Aelurillus spinicrus
• Aelurillus politiventris
• Aelurillus ater
• Aelurillus luctuosus
• Aelurillus minimontanus
• Aelurillus kochi
• Aelurillus
• Aelurillus kopetdaghi
• Aelurillus galinae
• Aelurillus hirtipes
• Aelurillus mirabilis
• Aelurillus desertus
• Aelurillus subaffinis
• Aelurillus aeruginosus
• Aelurillus dubatolovi
• Aelurillus basseleti