Aelurillus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Description

Aelurillus are typically about 7 mm long in females, and up to five mm in males. They are stout, squat-shaped and rather furry, with females often uniformly mottled sandy brown, while males are often black, sometimes with a pattern and with light, annulated legs.

Habits

Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy).

A Southeast Asian Aelurillus species has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it.

They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low vegetation.

Distribution

Aelurillus occurs in the Palaearctic and Africa, with a few species known from India (A. improvisus, A. minimontanus) and Sri Lanka (A. kronestedti, A. quadrimaculatus). Aelurillus subfestivus is found in Japan.

Species

Aelurillus aeruginosus (Simon, 1871) — Mediterranean
Aelurillus afghanus Azarkina, 2006 — Afghanistan
Aelurillus andreevae Nenilin, 1984 — Central Asia
Aelurillus angularis Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
Aelurillus ater (Kroneberg, 1875) — Central Asia
Aelurillus balearus Azarkina, 2006 — Canary Islands, Balearic Islands
Aelurillus basseleti (Lucas, 1846) — Algeria, Tunisia
Aelurillus blandus (Simon, 1871) — Greece, Crete
Aelurillus bokerinus Prószynski, 2003 — Israel
Aelurillus bosmansi Azarkina, 2006 — Spain
Aelurillus brutus Wesolowska, 1996 — Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus catherinae Prószynski, 2000 — Egypt
Aelurillus catus Simon, 1886 — Senegal
Aelurillus cognatus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Lebanon
Aelurillus concolor Kulczynski, 1901 — Macedonia, Iran, Central Asia
Aelurillus conveniens (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Egypt, Israel, Syria
Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002 — Crete
Aelurillus cristatopalpus Simon, 1902 — South Africa
Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina, 2006 — Cyprus
Aelurillus dorthesi (Audouin, 1826) — Egypt
Aelurillus dubatolovi Azarkina, 2003 — Central Asia
Aelurillus faragallai Prószynski, 1993 — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Aelurillus gershomi Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
Aelurillus guecki Metzner, 1999 — Greece
Aelurillus helvenacius Logunov, 1993 — Mongolia
Aelurillus hirtipes Denis, 1960 — North Africa
Aelurillus improvisus Azarkina, 2002 — India
Aelurillus jerusalemicus Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
Aelurillus kochi Roewer, 1951 — Greece, Israel, Syria
Aelurillus kopetdaghi Wesolowska, 1996 — Turkmenistan
Aelurillus kronestedti Azarkina, 2004 — Sri Lanka
Aelurillus laniger Logunov & Marusik, 2000 — Macedonia, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus latebricola Spassky, 1941 — Tajikistan
Aelurillus leipoldae (Metzner, 1999) — Crete
Aelurillus logunovi Azarkina, 2004 — Afghanistan, Pakistan
Aelurillus lopadusae Cantarella, 1983 — Italy, Algeria
Aelurillus lucasi Roewer, 1951 — Canary Islands, Salvages
Aelurillus luctuosus (Lucas, 1846) — Mediterranean to Turkmenistan
Aelurillus lutosus (Tyschchenko, 1965) — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Aelurillus marusiki Azarkina, 2002 — Iran
Aelurillus minimontanus Azarkina, 2002 — India
Aelurillus mirabilis Wesolowska, 2006 — Namibia
Aelurillus m-nigrum Kulczynski, 1891 — Palearctic
Aelurillus monardi (Lucas, 1846) — Mediterranean
Aelurillus muganicus Dunin, 1984 — Azerbaijan
Aelurillus nabataeus Prószynski, 2003 — Israel
Aelurillus nenilini Azarkina, 2002 — Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Aelurillus numidicus (Lucas, 1846) — Algeria
Aelurillus plumipes (Thorell, 1875) — Algeria, Tunisia
Aelurillus politiventris (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Greece to Israel
Aelurillus quadrimaculatus Simon, 1889 — India, Sri Lanka
Aelurillus reconditus Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Yemen
Aelurillus rugatus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) — Tanzania
Aelurillus sahariensis Berland & Millot, 1941 — Mali
Aelurillus schembrii Cantarella, 1982 — Sicily, Malta
Aelurillus simoni (Lebert, 1877) — Switzerland
Aelurillus simplex (Herman, 1879) — Hungary
Aelurillus spinicrus (Simon, 1871) — Morocco
Aelurillus stanislawi (Prószynski, 1999) — Israel, Syria, Ethiopia
Aelurillus steinmetzi Metzner, 1999 — Greece
Aelurillus steliosi Dobroruka, 2002 — Crete
Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 — Ethiopia
Aelurillus subfestivus Saito, 1934 — Japan
Aelurillus tumidulus Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
Aelurillus unitibialis Azarkina, 2002 — Iran
Aelurillus v-insignitus (Clerck, 1757) — Palearctic
Aelurillus v-insignitus morulus (Simon, 1937) — France
Aelurillus v-insignitus obsoletus Kulczynski, 1891 — Eastern Europe

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