Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus alboclypeus Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, with black eye field, covered with dark brown to black scales, with 2 broad white longitudinal stripes. Prosoma length: 2.00-3.10 mm. Clypeus covered with short white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs I-II yellow-brown, femora I-II with 2 yellow dorsal stripes, patellae and tibiae I-II yellow, metatarsi and tarsi I-IIdark brown. Legs III-IV brown. Opisthosoma yellow-grey, dorsum black with an indistinct white longitudinal stripe and 5-6 pairs of indistinct white spots in posterior part.

Female

Prosoma dark brown, with black eye field, covered with white scales. Prosoma length: 2.30 mm. Clypeus dark brown, covered with white hairs. Sternum dark brown, covered with white hairs.Legs with dark brown spots and semi-rings. Opisthosoma greyish yellow, dorsum dark brown, with whitish yellow pattern.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Turkey (Asia)   (Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

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

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

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
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
04-09-2015 Image insert
04-09-2015 Distribution update Detail