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Genus: Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Stenaelurillus arambagensis (B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 1992)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034455

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5376/18) - (Caleb et al., 2017b)
Holotype: Arachnology Division, Sacred Heart College (ADSH), Cochin, Kerala, India m (83503Di) of Stenaelurillus digitus - (Caleb et al., 2017b)
Paratype: Arachnology Division, Sacred Heart College (ADSH), Cochin, Kerala, India 2m 3f (83503Dii) of Stenaelurillus digitus - (Caleb et al., 2017b)
Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m (5384/18) - (Caleb et al., 2017b)
Holotype: Indraprastha University Museum (IPUM), New Delhi, India m (Arach-123) of Stenaelurillus jagannathae - (Vidhel et al., 2015)
Paratype: Indraprastha University Museum (IPUM), New Delhi, India 1m 1f (Arach 122, 124) of Stenaelurillus jagannathae - (Vidhel et al., 2015)
Allotype: Indraprastha University Museum (IPUM), New Delhi, India f (Arach-121) of Stenaelurillus jagannathae - (Vidhel et al., 2015)

Taxonomic References

Marpissa arambagensis Biswas & Biswas, 1992: 390, f. 20-22 (Dmf) Original description

Stenaelurillus jagannathae Das, Malik & Vidhel in Vidhel et al., 2015: 2332, f. 1-13 (Dmf; nomen nudum per Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 48, Zoobank registration in this electronic journal is missing, see ICZN Article 8.5.3) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047896]

Stenaelurillus digitus Prajapati et al., 2016b: 327, f. 1C-D, 6A-D, 7A-E, 8A-C, 9A-D (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048690]

Stenaelurillus jagannathae Maheshwari & Chopda, 2017: 324, f. 1-5 (mf)

Stenaelurillus arambagensis Caleb et al., 2017b: 120, f. 1-17 (mf, T from Marpissa, S of Stenaelurillus digitus)

Stenaelurillus arambagensis Logunov & Azarkina, 2018: 20, f. 57-62 (m)

Stenaelurillus arambagensis Tripathi, Kadam & Sudhikumar, 2024: 618, f. 9-16 (mf, S of Stenaelurillus jagannathae)

References

Biswas, B. & Biswas, K. (1992). Araneae: Spiders. State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal 3, 357-500. -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Prajapati, D. A., Rameshwar Maheshwari, N. & Sanap, R. V. (2017b). Redescription and synonymy of Stenaelurillus arambagensis (Biswas et Biswas, 1992) comb. n. (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 119-123. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.26.2.04 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2018). Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 430: 1-126. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.430 -- Show included taxa

Maheshwari, N. R. & Chopda, M. Z. (2017). Record of Stenaelurillus jagannathae from Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. Global Journal for Research Analysis 6(6): 324-325. -- Show included taxa

Prajapati, D. A., Murthappa, P. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016b). Two new species of Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina). Zootaxa 4171(2): 321-334. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.5 -- Show included taxa

Tripathi, R., Kadam, G. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2024). Taxonomic and distributional notes on four recently described Stenaelurillus species from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 17(4): 617-623. doi: 10.1016/j.japb.2024.04.010 -- Show included taxa

Vidhel, B. P., Malik, S., Sabata, B. C. & Das, S. K. (2015). A new spider species of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillinae) from India. International Journal of Science and Research 4(7): 2332-2336. -- 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.

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
2026-01-13	Taxonomic reference update	Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025	Old value
2024-11-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Tripathi, Kadam & Sudhikumar, 2024
2024-11-23	Species synonymy	Tripathi, Kadam & Sudhikumar, 2024		Stenaelurillus jagannathae synonymized with Stenaelurillus arambagensis
2024-04-01	Species distribution update	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018	Old value
2018-05-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018
2017-06-22	First description of male	Caleb et al., 2017b	Old value
2017-06-22	Species synonymy	Caleb et al., 2017b		Stenaelurillus digitus synonymized with Stenaelurillus arambagensis
2017-06-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb et al., 2017b
2017-06-22	Species transferred to new genus	Caleb et al., 2017b		Species transferred from Marpissa to Stenaelurillus