Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   35 species

Aelurillus steinmetzi  Metzner, 1999

Description
Male

Resembles A. v-insignitus. Prosoma dorsally dark brown with black margin and yellow-white hairs. Head plate anteriorly with light orange hairs, followed by two parallel v-shaped hair bands, which are discontinuously elongated posteriad. Opisthosoma dorsally with brown-black hairs, medially with broad silverwhite-grey longitudinal band, which is strongly depressed in the posterior half of the opisthosoma. Palp: conductor diverging from embolus in v-shape, narrow in ventral view, distally slightly winding.

Body length male: 3.7-4.7 mm
Female

Resembles A. v-insignitus. Prosoma dorsally dark brown. Head plate black with light grey-yellow hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown and with silverwhite-grey and brown hairs. Epigyne characteristic.

Body length female: 7.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Greece
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Croatia   (Kranjčev, 2012) ||| Greece   (Metzner, 1999; Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Gavalas I (2023) The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11 (Suppl. 1): 1-91 pdf

Kranjčev R (2012) [Jumping spider fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Paklenica National Park, Republic of Croatia]. Entomologia Croatica 16: 105-114 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-02-2024 Image insert
07-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
26-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
12-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail