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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040964

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Description

Palp brown. Male: femur with dark hairs, and with ventral round swelling. Embolus with massive base and typical tip. Prosoma dark brown, with black eye field. Sternum brown. Chelicerae female: red-brown, males: yellow-brown. Legs brown, with white hairs. Opisthosoma dark brown to brown-grey, dorsally with longitudinal band of white hairs in posterior half. Book lungs yellow-brown to brownish grey. Spinnerets brown.

Body length male: 5.2 mm
Body length female: 6.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Pedipalp
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolus, ventral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolus, dorsal view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Femur
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Habitus
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Schäfer 2020)

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male Habitus, frontal view
(Schäfer 2020)

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female Epigyne
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Azarkina & Komnenov 2015)

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female Vulva
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Komnenov 2015)

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female Habitus
(Azarkina 2002)

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.

Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) |||
References

Azarkina G N (2002) New and poorly known species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 from central Asia, Asia Minor and the eastern Mediterranean (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 249-263 pdf

Azarkina G N, Komnenov M (2015) Descriptions of two new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, with the synonymization of A. steliosi Dobroruka, 2002. ZooKeys 516: 109-122 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Schäfer M (2020) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Kreta mit der Erstbeschreibung von Pellenes florii sp. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 72-87 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
24-04-2020 Image insert
04-09-2015 Image insert