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

Stenaelurillus hirsutus Lessert, 1927

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036331

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036331

Described:

Distribution: Senegal, Ghana, DR Congo, Central Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027959) - (Lessert, 1927)
Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (208012) of Stenaelurillus cristatus - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (208011) of Stenaelurillus cristatus - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)

Taxonomic References

Stenaelurillus hirsutus Lessert, 1927: 433, f. 18 (Dm) Original description

Stenaelurillus cristatus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 96, f. 261-268 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036325]

Stenaelurillus cristatus Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 375, f. 7D-E, 9A-D (m)

Stenaelurillus hirsutus Wesołowska, 2014b: 602, f. 4A-G, 15A-D (mf, S of Stenaelurillus cristatus)

References

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005). Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51(4): 357-378. -- 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	Comment
2018-05-02	Species distribution update	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018	Old value
2015-03-18	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, 2014b	Old value
2015-03-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2014b
2015-03-18	Species synonymy	Wesołowska, 2014b		Stenaelurillus cristatus synonymized with Stenaelurillus hirsutus