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Genus: Yllenus Simon, 1868 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Yllenus turkestanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038341

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Described:

Distribution: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan

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

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Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 16m 4f (57575, 57591, 57593, 57608, 57617; not in MMUE as per Logunov & Marusik, 2003a) - (Logunov, 2025b)
Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 42m 18f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary 9m 6f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 5m 5f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 2m 2f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 5m 3f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)
Paratype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia 1m 1f - (Logunov & Marusik, 2003a)

Taxonomic References

Yllenus flavociliatus Wesołowska, 1996: 45, f. 37A-F, 38A-C, 39A-C (mf; misidentified per Logunov & Marusik, 2003a: 111)

Yllenus turkestanicus Logunov & Marusik, 2003a: 111, f. 79, 384-388 (Dmf) Original description

Yllenus turkestanicus Esyunin, Ponomarev & Kabdrakhimov, 2025: 270, f. 46-54 (mf)

References

Esyunin, S. L., Ponomarev, A. V. & Kabdrakhimov, A. A. (2025). To the knowledge of the jumping spider fauna (Aranei: Salticidae) of the Caspian Depression, with taxonomic remarks. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 21(2): 261-276. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17465429 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2003a). A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 168 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1996). New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53. -- 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
2025-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Esyunin, Ponomarev & Kabdrakhimov, 2025
2020-03-31	Species distribution update	Logunov & Ponomarev, 2020b	Old value