Yllenus
Yllenus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Y. arenarius is peculiar in building silken nests under the sand surface of sandy dunes it inhabits.
Species
- Yllenus albifrons (Lucas, 1846) — North Africa, Near East
- Yllenus albocinctus (Kroneberg, 1875) — Turkey to China
- Yllenus algarvensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Portugal
- Yllenus aralicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus arenarius Menge, 1868 — Central, Eastern Europe
- Yllenus auriceps (Denis, 1966) — Libya
- Yllenus auspex (O. P.-Cambridge, 1885) — Mongolia, China
- Yllenus bactrianus Andreeva, 1976 — Tajikistan
- Yllenus bajan Prószynski, 1968 — Mongolia, China
- Yllenus bakanas Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus baltistanus Caporiacco, 1935 — India
- Yllenus bator Prószynski, 1968 — Mongolia, China
- Yllenus bucharensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Uzbekistan
- Yllenus caspicus Ponomarev, 1978 — Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus charynensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus coreanus Prószynski, 1968 — Russia, Central Asia, Korea, Mongolia
- Yllenus dalaensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus desertus Wesolowska, 1991 — Mongolia
- Yllenus dunini Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
- Yllenus erzinensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Russia, Mongolia
- Yllenus flavociliatus Simon, 1895 — Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Yllenus gajdosi Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Mongolia
- Yllenus gavdos Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Canary Islands, Spain, Crete
- Yllenus guseinovi Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus halugim Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Israel
- Yllenus hamifer Simon, 1895 — Mongolia
- Yllenus horvathi Chyzer, 1891 — Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine
- Yllenus improcerus Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Yemen
- Yllenus kalkamanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Kazakhstan, China
- Yllenus karakumensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Turkmenistan
- Yllenus karnai Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — India
- Yllenus knappi Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Sudan, Yemen
- Yllenus kononenkoi Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kyrgyzstan
- Yllenus kotchevnik Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Turkmenistan
- Yllenus kulczynskii Punda, 1975 — Mongolia
- Yllenus lyachovi Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus maoniuensis (Liu, Wang & Peng, 1991) — China
- Yllenus marusiki Logunov, 1993 — Mongolia
- Yllenus mirabilis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus mirandus Wesolowska, 1996 — Turkmenistan
- Yllenus mongolicus Prószynski, 1968 — Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia
- Yllenus murgabicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Tajikistan
- Yllenus namulinensis Hu, 2001 — China
- Yllenus nigritarsis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Turkmenistan
- Yllenus nurataus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Uzbekistan
- Yllenus pamiricus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Tajikistan
- Yllenus pavlenkoae Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus pseudobajan Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — China
- Yllenus pseudovalidus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus ranunculus Thorell, 1875 — Algeria
- Yllenus robustior Prószynski, 1968 — China
- Yllenus rotundiorificus Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Mongolia
- Yllenus saliens O. P.-Cambridge, 1876 — North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
- Yllenus salsicola (Simon, 1937) — France to Israel
- Yllenus shakhsenem Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Turkmenistan
- Yllenus squamifer (Simon, 1881) — Portugal, Spain
- Yllenus tamdybulak Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Uzbekistan
- Yllenus tschoni (Caporiacco, 1936) — Libya, Egypt, Israel
- Yllenus turkestanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Central Asia
- Yllenus tuvinicus Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Russia
- Yllenus uiguricus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus univittatus (Simon, 1871) — France, possibly Turkmenistan
- Yllenus uzbekistanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Yllenus validus (Simon, 1889) — Central Asia to Mongolia
- Yllenus vittatus Thorell, 1875 — Eastern Europe to Kazakhstan
- Yllenus zhilgaensis Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan
- Yllenus zyuzini Logunov & Marusik, 2003 — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
- Logunov, D. V. & Y. M. Marusik. 2003. A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 168 pp.
Further reading
- Bartos, Maciej (2002): The sub-sand nests of Yllenus arenarius (Araneae, Salticidae): Structure, function and construction behavior. The Journal of Arachnology 30: 275-280. PDF
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