Stenaelurillus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Stenaelurillus | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
| Diversity | ||||||||||||||||
| 22 species | ||||||||||||||||
| Type species | ||||||||||||||||
| Stenaelurillus nigricauda Simon, 1885 |
||||||||||||||||
| Species | ||||||||||||||||
|
see text |
Stenaelurillus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Contents |
[edit] Appearance
All species have two white longitudinal stripes on the carapace, both sexes show strong bristles around the eyes.
[edit] Distribution
Species of this genus occur from South Africa to China. Most species live in Africa, with some species found in Asia.
[edit] Name
The genus name is combined from Greek sten- "narrow" and the salticid genus Aelurillus.
[edit] Species
- Stenaelurillus albopunctatus Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
- Stenaelurillus ambiguus Denis, 1966 — Libya
- Stenaelurillus cristatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Ghana, Tanzania
- Stenaelurillus darwini Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
- Stenaelurillus fuscatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
- Stenaelurillus giovae Caporiacco, 1936 — Libya
- Stenaelurillus guttiger (Simon, 1901) — Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Stenaelurillus hainanensis Peng, 1995 — China
- Stenaelurillus hirsutus Lessert, 1927 — Congo
- Stenaelurillus kronestedti Prochniewicz & Heciak, 1994 — Tanzania
- Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser, 1934 — India
- Stenaelurillus leucogrammus Simon, 1902 — Southern Africa
- Stenaelurillus marusiki Logunov, 2001 — Iran
- Stenaelurillus minutus Song & Chai, 1991 — China
- Stenaelurillus mirabilis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
- Stenaelurillus natalensis Haddad & Wesolowska, 2006 — South Africa
- Stenaelurillus nigricaudus Simon, 1886 — Algeria, Gambia, Senegal
- Stenaelurillus setosus (Thorell, 1895) — Burma
- Stenaelurillus strandi Caporiacco, 1939 — Ethiopia
- Stenaelurillus triguttatus Simon, 1886 — Tibet
- Stenaelurillus uniguttatus Lessert, 1925 — Ethiopia, East Africa
- Stenaelurillus werneri Simon, 1906 — Egypt to Uganda
[edit] References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005): Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta zoologica hungarica 51(4): 357-378. PDF (S. nigricaudus, S. cristatus)
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
