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

Galina N Azarkina; Marjan Komnenov

doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.9439

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

Zookeys. 2015 Aug 10:(516):109-22. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.516.9439. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Galina N Azarkina¹, Marjan Komnenov²

Affiliations

¹ The Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.
² Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupoli, Greece.

Abstract

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

Keywords: Aranei; Mediterranean; jumping spiders; synonymy.