Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Aelurillus  Simon, 1885   35 species

Aelurillus alboclypeus  Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, with black eye field, covered with dark brown to black scales, with 2 broad white longitudinal stripes. Prosoma length: 2.00-3.10 mm. Clypeus covered with short white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs I-II yellow-brown, femora I-II with 2 yellow dorsal stripes, patellae and tibiae I-II yellow, metatarsi and tarsi I-IIdark brown. Legs III-IV brown. Opisthosoma yellow-grey, dorsum black with an indistinct white longitudinal stripe and 5-6 pairs of indistinct white spots in posterior part.

Female

Prosoma dark brown, with black eye field, covered with white scales. Prosoma length: 2.30 mm. Clypeus dark brown, covered with white hairs. Sternum dark brown, covered with white hairs.Legs with dark brown spots and semi-rings. Opisthosoma greyish yellow, dorsum dark brown, with whitish yellow pattern.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey
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"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.

Turkey (Asia)   (Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 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
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
04-09-2015 Image insert
04-09-2015 Distribution update Detail