Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002

Azarkina, Galina N. & Komnenov, Marjan, 2015, Descriptions of two new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, with the synonymization of A. steliosi Dobroruka, 2002, ZooKeys 516, pp. 109-122 : 113-114

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Salticidae

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002 Figs 1, 32-34

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina 2002: 251, figs 8-18 (♂♀, re-examined).

Aelurillus steliosi Dobroruka 2002: 8, figs 5-13(allotype ♀, re-examined).

Aelurillus cretensis : Bosmans and Chatzaki 2005: 100 (in part).

Type material.

Allotype of Aelurillus steliosi : 1 ♀ (MNHN #AR 13335) "GREECE, Crete, Psiloreitis, Kouroutes (Prefectura Irakleio), near Agios Titos church, 1180 m a.s.l., 35°20'N, 25°08'E, 12 June 2001, coll. S. Simaiakis". Holotype of Aelurillus cretensis : ♂ (NHMC) GREECE, Crete, Lefka Ori Mts., 1650 m a.s.l., 35°17'N, 23°54'E, 8 June 1991, coll. P. Lymperakis. Paratypes: GREECE: 1 ♂ (NHMC), 1 ♂ (MMUM) Crete, Lefka Ori Mts., 1650-2100 m a.s.l., 35°17'N, 23°54'E, 16-17 October 1990, coll. P. Lymperakis; 7 ♂ 2 ♀ (ISEA 000.516), 1 ♀ (ISEA 000.517), 2 ♂ 2 ♀ (NHMC), 1 ♀ (MMUM) Crete, Lefka Ori Mts., 1650 m a.s.l., 35°17'N, 23°54'E, 8 June-6 October 1991, coll. P. Lymperakis; 1 ♀ (ISEA 000.711) Crete, Lefka Ori Mts., 2000 m a.s.l., 35°17'N, 23°54'E, 6 August 1992, coll. P. Lymperakis.

Other material.

1 ♀ (SNHM) Greece, Crete, Lasithi, mountains S of Sitia, stony, moist beds of stream, under stones and on ground, 35°10'N, 26°06'E, 22 March 1958, coll. H. Kahmann.

Distribution.

Only known from Crete, Greece (Fig. 1; Azarkina 2002: fig. 8).

Comments.

The male holotype and the female allotype of Aelurillus steliosi belong to two different species, Aelurillus cretensis (female) and Aelurillus leipoldae (male).

Bosmans et al. 2013 erroneously (R. Bosmans, pers. comm.) mentioned Aelurillus blandus in reference to Aelurillus cretensis (WSC 2015) therefore we excluded this reference from the list.