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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   35 species

Aelurillus leipoldae  (Metzner, 1999)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032369

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Description

Palp yellow-brown to brown, covered with white hairs. Male palpal femur with ventral swelling. Prosoma female: dark brown with yellow-brown hairs. Male: yellow-brown with dark eye field and one pair of white longitudinal stripes, eyes margined with orange hairs. Sternum brown to brownish yellow. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma female: orange-yellow-brown. Male: grey-brown with one pair of brown longitudinal stripes. Book-lungs yellowish grey in both sexes. Spinnerets brown.

Body length male: 4.35-5 mm
Body length female: 6.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Pedipalp
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Pedipalp
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Komnenov 2015)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Azarkina & Komnenov 2015)

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male Embolus, dorsal view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolus, ventral view
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Embolic division, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Komnenov 2015)

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male Femur
(Azarkina 2002)

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male Habitus
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Epigyne
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Vulva
(Azarkina 2002)

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female Habitus
(Azarkina 2002)

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.

Greece / Crete   (Metzner, 1999; Azarkina, 2002; Bosmans et al., 2013) |||
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

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

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

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
01-12-2022 Distribution update Detail
04-09-2015 Image insert