Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus lopadusae Cantarella, 1983

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3.2-3.8 mm.

Body length male: 7.5-10.2 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 3.5-4.6 mm.

Body length female: 7.5-10.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Algeria
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Azarkina & Logunov, 2006; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Azarkina G N, Logunov S V (2006) Taxonomic notes on nine Aelurillus species of the western Mediterranean (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 233-248 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Cantarella T (1983) Una nuova specie di Aelurillus (Araneae, Salticidae) dell'isola di Lampedusa. Animalia 10: 53-59 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-10-2023 Distribution update Detail
24-07-2015 Image insert