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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   35 species

Aelurillus blandus  (Simon, 1871)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032167

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Description
Male

Male palp yellow, covered with white hairs. Embolus toothed at the end. Prosoma dark brown, with a typical white central patch dorsally. Sternum brown. Chelicerae orange-brown. Legs brownish yellow. Femur covered with long, white hairs. Opisthosoma uniformly grey-brown, book lungs yellow. Spinnerets yellow-grey.

Prosoma length: 3.2 mm.

Body length male: 4.1-5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.1 mm.

Body length female: 4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, Greece (incl. Crete)
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, dorso-lateral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolus, dorsal view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolus, mesal view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Habitus
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 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
06-01-2016 Image insert
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail