Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   35 species

Aelurillus m-nigrum  Kulczyński, 1891

Description

Male palp yellow, white haired, femur with ventral swelling. Prosoma brown, female: black M-shaped pattern connecting eyes, 2 oval, dark brown stripes posteriorly. Male: eye region black with 3 M-shaped extensions. Sternum yellow-brown to dark brown. Chelicerae red-brown. Legs yellow-brown, with dark spots. Opisthosoma female: dorsally with 3 dark brown stripes on light yellow background, dark transverse stripes on bright background posteriorly, ventrally light yellow. Male: dorsally with 5 dark stripes on bright background, median stripes slightly shorter, ventrally yellow-grey. Spinnerets yellow-grey.

Body length male: 4.6 mm
Body length female: 6.3-7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): South-eastern Europe, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece / Crete  Removed (Logunov & Chatzaki, 2003; Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2006) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev & Khnykin, 2013; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 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, 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

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, Chatzaki M (2003) An annotated check-list of the Salticidae (Araneae) of Crete, Greece. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 7: 95-100 pdf

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

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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, Khnykin A S (2013) Spiders (Aranei) of Volgograd sity and its environs. The South of Russia: ecology, development 4: 109-136 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 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

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