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

Aelurillus minutus Azarkina, 2002

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049573

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Described:

Distribution: Syria, Eritrea

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland m (ARAN-02732a) - (Azarkina, 2002)

Taxonomic References

Aelurillus minutus Azarkina, 2002: 258, f. 64-70 (Dm) Original description

Aelurillus stanislawi Azarkina, 2006: 70, f. 38-40 (f; misidentified per Prószyński, 2017b: 95)

Aelurillus minutus Prószyński, 2017b: 95, f. 43Q (m, removed from S of Aelurillus stanislawi [rejecting Azarkina, 2006: 70])

References

Azarkina, G. N. (2002). New and poorly known species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 from Central Asia, Asia Minor and the eastern Mediterranean (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12(6): 249-263. -- Show included taxa

Azarkina, G. N. (2006). Four new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 1: 63-72. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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
2017-09-09	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value
2017-09-09	Species distribution update	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value
2017-09-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Rafalus to Aelurillus
2017-09-09	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2017-09-09	Species updated	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value	Removed synonymy
2017-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b