Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus aeruginosus (Simon, 1871)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2.18 mm.

Body length male: 4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma covered with white scales, prosoma length: 2.70 mm. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellow with greyish dots.

Body length female: 4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Morocco, Spain, Italy (Sicily), Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel
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Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Morocco   (Naumova, 2023; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Kirazci et al., 2017) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 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

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

Kirazci C, Topçu A, Demircan N (2017) A new jumping spider record for the fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 15: 127-129 pdf

Naumova M (2023) Survey of the Moroccan arachnids (Araneae, Scorpiones & Solifugae) in the collections of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgaria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 72-78 pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 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
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