Stenaelurillus Explained

Stenaelurillus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.^[1] Most species live in Africa, with some species found in Asia, including China.^[2] All species have two white longitudinal stripes on the carapace, and both sexes show strong bristles around the eyes.^[3] The name is a combination of the Greek sten- "narrow" and the salticid genus Aelurillus.

Species

it contains forty-six species, found only in Africa and Asia:^[4]

• Stenaelurillus abramovi Logunov, 2008 – Thailand, Vietnam
• Stenaelurillus albopunctatus Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Stenaelurillus albus Sebastian, Sankaran, Malamel & Joseph, 2015 – India
• Stenaelurillus arambagensis (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) – India
• Stenaelurillus bandama Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Ivory Coast
• Stenaelurillus belihuloya Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Sri Lanka
• Stenaelurillus brandbergensis (Wesolowska, 2006) – Namibia
• Stenaelurillus darwini Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania, Kenya
• Stenaelurillus furcatus Wesolowska, 2014 – Namibia
• Stenaelurillus fuscatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Stenaelurillus fuscus Cao & Li, 2016 – China
• Stenaelurillus gabrieli Prajapati, Murthappa, Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 – India
• Stenaelurillus glaber Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda
• Stenaelurillus guttatus (Wesolowska & Cumming, 2002) – Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
• Stenaelurillus guttiger (Simon, 1901) – Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Stenaelurillus hirsutus Lessert, 1927 – Senegal, Ghana, Congo, Central Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya
• Stenaelurillus ignobilis Wesolowska & Cumming, 2011 – Zimbabwe
• Stenaelurillus iubatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
• Stenaelurillus jagannathae Das, Malik & Vidhel, 2015 – India
• Stenaelurillus jocquei Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Cameroon
• Stenaelurillus kavango Wesolowska, 2014 – Namibia
• Stenaelurillus kronestedti Próchniewicz & Heçiak, 1994 – Tanzania
• Stenaelurillus latibulbis Wesołowska, 2014 – Congo, Zambia
• Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser, 1934 – India, Sri Lanka
• Stenaelurillus leucogrammus Simon, 1902 – Zimbabwe, Mozambique
• Stenaelurillus mardanicus Ali & Maddison, 2018 – Pakistan
• Stenaelurillus marusiki Logunov, 2001 – Iran
• Stenaelurillus metallicus Caleb & Mathai, 2016 – India
• Stenaelurillus minutus Song & Chai, 1991 – China
• Stenaelurillus mirabilis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania, Kenya
• Stenaelurillus modestus Wesołowska, 2014 – South Africa
• Stenaelurillus nigricaudus Simon, 1886 (type) – Algeria, Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso
• Stenaelurillus pecten Wesolowska, 2014 – Botswana, Zambia
• Stenaelurillus pilosus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
• Stenaelurillus pseudoguttatus Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Namibia
• Stenaelurillus sarojinae Caleb & Mathai, 2014 – India
• Stenaelurillus senegalensis Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Senegal
• Stenaelurillus siyamae Logunov & Azarkina, 2018 – Sudan
• Stenaelurillus specularis Wesolowska, 2014 – Malawi
• Stenaelurillus strandi Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia
• Stenaelurillus striolatus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
• Stenaelurillus sudanicus Wesolowska, 2014 – Sudan
• Stenaelurillus termitophagus (Wesołowska & Cumming, 1999) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Stenaelurillus triguttatus Simon, 1886 – Nepal, Tibet
• Stenaelurillus uniguttatus Lessert, 1925 – Ethiopia, East Africa
• Stenaelurillus zambiensis Wesołowska, 2014 – Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Nomen dubium

• Stenaelurillus giovae Caporiacco, 1936
• Stenaelurillus setosus (Thorell, 1895)

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1886. Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 345–396. 5. 6. Eugène Simon.
2. Book: Murphy. Frances. Murphy. John. 2000. An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society. Kuala Lumpur.
3. Szűts. T.. Scharff. N.. 2005. Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta Zoologica Hungarica. 51. 4. 357–378. https://web.archive.org/web/20060720081312/http://zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu/publication/actazool/51/4/szuts_scharff.pdf. dead. 2006-07-20.
4. Gen. Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.