Descriptions of two new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, with the synonymization of A. steliosi Dobroruka, 2002

By

Azarkina, Galina N.
Komnenov, Marjan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

516

Pages

109-122

Subjects

Aranei , Jumping spiders , Mediterranean , synonymy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.516.9439

 

Abstract

Two Aelurillus species are described as new, A. alboclypeus sp. n. (♂♀, from Turkey) and A. deltshevi sp. n. (♂, from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan). Aelurillus steliosi Dobroruka, 2002 is synonymized with A. leipoldae (Metzner, 1999). Additional distributions of the closely related species A. v-insignitus are provided for the region of study. Distributional maps are provided for the five species reported in this paper.