Aelurillus

Taxobox
name = "Aelurillus"

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image_caption = male "A. v-insignitus"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Aelurillinae
genus = "Aelurillus"
genus_authority = Simon, 1884
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Aelurillus
diversity = 65 species
type_species = "Araneus litera v insignitus"
type_species_authority = Clerck, 1757
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

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

Description

"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.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273]

Habits

Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy).

A Southeast Asian "Aelurillus" species has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 344]

They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low vegetation.

Distribution

"Aelurillus" occurs 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.

pecies

* "Aelurillus aeruginosus" (Simon, 1871) — Mediterranean
* "Aelurillus andreevae" Nenilin, 1984 — Central Asia
* "Aelurillus angularis" Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
* "Aelurillus ater" (Kroneberg, 1875) — Central Asia
* "Aelurillus basseleti" (Lucas, 1846) — Algeria, Tunisia
* "Aelurillus blandus" (Simon, 1871) — Greece, Crete
* "Aelurillus bokerinus" Prószynski, 2003 — Israel
* "Aelurillus brutus" Wesolowska, 1996 — Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
* "Aelurillus catherinae" Prószynski, 2000 — Egypt
* "Aelurillus catus" Simon, 1885 — 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 dorthesi" (Audouin, 1826) — Egypt
* "Aelurillus dubatolovi" Azarkina, 2003 — Central Asia
* "Aelurillus faragallai" Prószynski, 1993 — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
* "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 kochi" Roewer, 1951 — Greece, Israel, Syria
* "Aelurillus kopetdaghi" Wesolowska, 1996 — Turkmenistan
* "Aelurillus kronestedti" Azarkina, 2004 — Sri Lanka
* "Aelurillus laniger" Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — 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 minutus" Azarkina, 2002 — Syria
* "Aelurillus m-nigrum" Kulczynski, 1891 — Palearctic
* "Aelurillus monardi" (Lucas, 1846) — Mediterranean
* "Aelurillus muganicus" Dunin, 1984 — Azerbaijan
* "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 reconditus" Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Yemen
* "Aelurillus rugatus" (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) — Tanzania
* "Aelurillus sahariensis" Berland & Millot, 1941 — Mali
* "Aelurillus schembrii" Cantarella, 1982 — Sicily, Malta
* "Aelurillus simoni" (Lebert, 1877) — Switzerland
* "Aelurillus simplex" (Herman, 1879) — Hungary
* "Aelurillus spinicrus" (Simon, 1871) — Morocco
* "Aelurillus steinmetzi" Metzner, 1999 — Greece
* "Aelurillus steliosi" Dobroruka, 2002 — Crete
* "Aelurillus subaffinis" Caporiacco, 1947 — Ethiopia
* "Aelurillus subfestivus" Saito, 1934 — Japan
* "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

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

*, aut|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-.
* (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
* (2002): Redescription of "Aelurillus subaffinis" Caporiacco, 1947 (Araneae: Salticidae). "Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici" 94: 209-216. [http://www.pedozoologia.net/PDF/szuts_azarkina%202002_ANNALES.pdf PDF]

External links

* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/aeluril/aeluril.htm Short description of "Aelurillus"] (with drawings)
* [http://salticidae.next-it.hu/PDF/szuts_azarkina%202002_ANNALES.pdf Redescription of Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947] (PDF)
* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/aeluril/monard-ph.htm Photographs of "A. monardi"]
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/aeluril/aerug-ph.htm Photograph of "A. aeruginosus"]