Stenaelurillus
| Stenaelurillus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Aelurillinae |
| Genus: | Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| Stenaelurillus nigricauda Simon, 1885 | |
| Species | |
|
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| Diversity | |
| 23 species | |
Stenaelurillus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Appearance
All species have two white longitudinal stripes on the carapace, both sexes show strong bristles around the eyes.
Distribution
Species of this genus occur from South Africa to China. Most species live in Africa, with some species found in Asia.
Name
The genus name is combined from Greek sten- "narrow" and the salticid genus Aelurillus.
Species
- Stenaelurillus abramovi Logunov, 2008 — Vietnam
- 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 basin
- 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 sarojinae Caleb & Mathai, 2014 — India
- 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
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. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
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