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

Aelurillus plumipes (Thorell, 1875)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032201

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Tunisia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC/ZMK), Denmark m - (Azarkina & Logunov, 2006)
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1m 1f of Yllenus cervinus - (Azarkina & Logunov, 2006)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Aelurillus mayeti - (Azarkina & Logunov, 2006)

Taxonomic References

Yllenus plumipes Thorell, 1875c: 195 (Dm) Original description

Yllenus cervinus Thorell, 1875c: 196 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032172]

Aelurops plumipes Simon, 1876a: 139

Aelurops cervinus Simon, 1876a: 139

Aelurillus mayeti Simon, 1885i: 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032194]

Aelurillus cervinus Reimoser, 1919: 111

Aelurillus plumipes Reimoser, 1919: 112

Aelurillus cervinus Prószyński, 1976: 184, f. 313-318 (mf)

Aelurillus plumipes Prószyński, 1976: 184, f. 319-322 (m)

Aelurillus cervinus Cantarella, 1983: 55, f. 10-12, 17 (mf)

Aelurillus mayeti Prószyński, 2003: 36, f. 91-93 (mf)

Aelurillus plumipes Azarkina & Logunov, 2006: 245, f. 99-108 (mf, S of Aelurillus cervinus and A. mayeti)

References

Azarkina, G. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2006). Taxonomic notes on nine Aelurillus species of the western Mediterranean (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(7): 233-248. -- Show included taxa

Cantarella, T. (1983). Una nuova specie di Aelurillus (Araneae, Salticidae) dell'isola di Lampedusa. Animalia 10: 53-59. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1919). Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) des Paläarktischen Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10(2): 1-280. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885i). Etudes sur les Arachnides recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884 par MM. A. Letourneux, M. Sédillot et Valéry Mayet, membres de la mission de l'Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. In: Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie, publiée sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique. Zoologie – Arachnides. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 55 pp. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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

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