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Genus: Aelurillus Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Aelurillus cristatopalpus Simon, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032176

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m 1j (20129) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Aelurillus cristatopalpus Simon, 1902d: 36 (Dmf; f not adult per Clark, 1974: 11) Original description

Aelurillus cristatopalpus Clark, 1974: 11, f. 1 (m)

Aelurillus cristatopalpus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 6, f. 1-3 (m)

References

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1902d). Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24-56, 363-406. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2019-07-30	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected