Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus concolor Kulczyński, 1901

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, prosoma length: 2.8-2.9 mm. Chelicerae dark brown. Sternum brown, with white hairs. Legs orange. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown, with white hairs, venter yellowish grey.

Female

Prosoma dark brown, prosoma length: 3.1-3.4 mm. Sternum and chelicerae as in males. Legs orange, with brown spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellowish grey, with indistinct pattern, venter yellowish.

Additional information

Under stones in dry grass

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| North Macedonia   (Fišer & Azarkina, 2005; Komnenov, 2006) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fišer C, Azarkina G (2005) A contribution to the knowledge of the jumping spiders (Salticidae: Araneae) of the Republic of Macedonia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 57: 299-304 pdf

Komnenov M (2006) New data on jumping spiders in the Republic of Macedonia with a complete checklist (Araneae: Salticidae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 301-314 pdf

Logunov D V (2023a) On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19: 732-768 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Aliev M A, Khabiev G N, Shmatko V Y (2019a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 309-334 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

Schäfer M (2024) Zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Rhodos, mit der Erstbeschreibung des Weibchens von Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis und dem ersten Nachweis von Evarcha nepos für Griechenland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 10-17 pdf

Wesołowska W (1996) New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53 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

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