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

Stenaelurillus darwini Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036326

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Described:

Distribution: Tanzania, Kenya

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (207976) -

Taxonomic References

Stenaelurillus darwini Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 98, f. 269-276 (Dmf) Original description

Stenaelurillus darwini Wesołowska, 2014b: 598, f. 2A-E (m)

Stenaelurillus darwini Logunov & Azarkina, 2018: 31, f. 12, 105-118 (mf)

References

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

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2014b). Further notes on the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) in Africa with descriptions of eight new species. Zoosystema 36(3): 595-622. doi: 10.5252/z2014n3a3 -- 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
2018-05-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018
2015-03-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2014b
2015-03-18	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, 2014b	Old value