Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   34 species

Aelurillus blandus  (Simon, 1871)

Description
Male

Male palp yellow, covered with white hairs. Embolus toothed at the end. Prosoma dark brown, with a typical white central patch dorsally. Sternum brown. Chelicerae orange-brown. Legs brownish yellow. Femur covered with long, white hairs. Opisthosoma uniformly grey-brown, book lungs yellow. Spinnerets yellow-grey.

Prosoma length: 3.2 mm.

Body length male: 4.1-5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.1 mm.

Body length female: 4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Morocco   (Lecigne et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 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, 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 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184 pdf

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-04-2025 Distribution insert Detail
27-04-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-01-2016 Image insert
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail