Aelurillus
Aelurillus | |
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male A. v-insignitus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Aelurillus Simon, 1885[1] |
Type species | |
Araneus litera v-insignitus Clerck, 1757
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Species | |
See text | |
Diversity | |
68 species |
Aelurillus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Description[]
Aelurillus are typically about 7 mm long in females, and up to five mm in males. They are stout, squat-shaped and rather furry, with females often uniformly mottled sandy brown, while males are often black, sometimes with a pattern and with light, annulated legs.[2]
Habits[]
Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy).
A Southeast Asian Aelurillus species has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it.[3]
They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low vegetation.[2]
Distribution[]
Aelurillus occurs in the Palaearctic and Africa, with a few species known from India (A. improvisus, A. minimontanus) and Sri Lanka (A. kronestedti, A. quadrimaculatus). Aelurillus subfestivus is found in Japan.
Species[]
- Aelurillus aeruginosus (Simon, 1871) – Mediterranean
- Azarkina, 2006 – Afghanistan
- Nenilin, 1984 – Central Asia
- Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
- (Kroneberg, 1875) – Central Asia
- Azarkina, 2006 – Canary Islands, Balearic Islands
- Aelurillus basseleti (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria, Tunisia
- (Simon, 1871) – Greece, Crete
- Prószynski, 2003 – Israel
- Azarkina, 2006 – Spain
- Aelurillus brutus Wesołowska, 1996 – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
- Prószynski, 2000 – Egypt
- Simon, 1886 – Senegal
- (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon
- Kulczynski, 1901 – Macedonia, Iran, Central Asia
- (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Egypt, Israel, Syria
- Azarkina, 2002 – Crete
- Simon, 1902 – South Africa
- Azarkina, 2006 – Cyprus
- (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt
- Aelurillus dubatolovi Azarkina, 2003 – Central Asia
- Prószynski, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, Yemen
- Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
- Metzner, 1999 – Greece
- Logunov, 1993 – Mongolia
- Aelurillus hirtipes Denis, 1960 – North Africa
- Azarkina, 2002 – India
- Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
- Roewer, 1951 – Greece, Israel, Syria
- Aelurillus kopetdaghi Wesołowska, 1996 – Turkmenistan
- Aelurillus kronestedti Azarkina, 2004 – Sri Lanka
- Logunov & Marusik, 2000 – Macedonia, Kazakhstan
- Spassky, 1941 – Tajikistan
- Aelurillus leipoldae (Metzner, 1999) – Crete
- Azarkina, 2004 – Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Cantarella, 1983 – Italy, Algeria
- Roewer, 1951 – Canary Islands, Salvages
- (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean to Turkmenistan
- (Tyschchenko, 1965) – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
- Azarkina, 2002 – Iran
- Azarkina, 2002 – India
- Aelurillus mirabilis Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
- Kulczynski, 1891 – Palearctic
- (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
- Dunin, 1984 – Azerbaijan
- Prószynski, 2003 – Israel
- Azarkina, 2002 – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
- (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
- (Thorell, 1875) – Algeria, Tunisia
- (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece to Israel
- Aelurillus quadrimaculatus Simon, 1889 – India, Sri Lanka
- Aelurillus reconditus Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994 – Yemen
- (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania
- Berland & Millot, 1941 – Mali
- Cantarella, 1982 – Sicily, Malta
- (Lebert, 1877) – Switzerland
- (Herman, 1879) – Hungary
- (Simon, 1871) – Morocco
- (Prószynski, 1999) – Israel, Syria, Ethiopia
- Metzner, 1999 – Greece
- Dobroruka, 2002 – Crete
- Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
- Saito, 1934 – Japan
- Aelurillus tumidulus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
- Azarkina, 2002 – Iran
- Aelurillus v-insignitus (Clerck, 1757) – Palearctic
- Aelurillus v-insignitus morulus (Simon, 1937) – France
- Aelurillus v-insignitus obsoletus Kulczynski, 1891 – Eastern Europe
References[]
- ^ "Gen. Aelurillus Simon, 1885", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-12-22
- ^ a b Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 344
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Further reading[]
- Li, D., Jackson, R.R. & Harland, D.P (1999). Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Aelurillus aeruginosus, A. cognatus and A. kochi, ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Israel. Isr. J. Zool 45: 341-.
- Azarkina, G.N. (2004): Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 from Pakistan and Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(2): 49-52
- Szűts, T. & Azarkina, G. (2002): Redescription of Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 94: 209-216. PDF
External links[]
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