Marusyllus auspex (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885)
Description
Male
Prosoma red-brown, covered with white scale hairs, eyes surrounded with black. Clypeus yellow. Sternum brown, covered with white hairs. Chelicerae brownish. Legs yellow, femora brownish, patellae, tibiae and metatarsi with brown rings and spots. Metatarsi and Tarsi I ventrally with patch of dense black hairs. Opisthosoma: dorsum and sides grey brown, venter yellow. Spinnerets yellow.
Female
Colouration somewhat lighter than in males. Clypeus and anterior part chelicerae densely covered with white hairs. Legs almost completely yellow, tarsi and metatarsi without black ventral hairs.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral-ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Pedipalp, prolateral-ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Terminal apophysis
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Leg I
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
Vulva
(Logunov & Marusik 2003)
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.
References
Logunov D V, Marusik YM (2003) A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 168 pp 
Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 18-08-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |