Aelurillus steinmetzi Metzner, 1999
Description
Male
Resembles A. v-insignitus. Prosoma dorsally dark brown with black margin and yellow-white hairs. Head plate anteriorly with light orange hairs, followed by two parallel v-shaped hair bands, which are discontinuously elongated posteriad. Opisthosoma dorsally with brown-black hairs, medially with broad silverwhite-grey longitudinal band, which is strongly depressed in the posterior half of the opisthosoma. Palp: conductor diverging from embolus in v-shape, narrow in ventral view, distally slightly winding.
Body length male: 3.7-4.7 mmFemale
Resembles A. v-insignitus. Prosoma dorsally dark brown. Head plate black with light grey-yellow hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown and with silverwhite-grey and brown hairs. Epigyne characteristic.
Body length female: 7.6 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Embolus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Gavalas 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
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
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 
Bosmans R, Gavalas I (2023) The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11 (Suppl. 1): 1-91
Kranjčev R (2012) [Jumping spider fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Paklenica National Park, Republic of Croatia]. Entomologia Croatica 16: 105-114
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2