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 mmFemale
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 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Embolus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Distribution List
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 
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
Kranjčev R (2012) [Jumping spider fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Paklenica National Park, Republic of Croatia]. Entomologia Croatica 16: 105-114
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2