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

Aelurillus blandus (Simon, 1871)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032167

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Attus blandus Simon, 1871a: 155 (Dm) Original description

Aelurops blandus Simon, 1876a: 139

Aelurillus blandus Simon, 1885c: 314 (T from Aelurops)

Aelurillus blandus Metzner, 1999: 73, f. 39a-h, 43k (m, Df)

Aelurillus blandus Azarkina, 2002: 250, f. 1-7 (m)

Aelurillus blandus Lecigne, 2016a: 109, f. 5A-C (m)

Aelurillus blandus Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 142, f. 87A-E (m)

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

Lecigne, S. (2016a). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(3, 2015): 95-118. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1871a). Révision des Attidae européens. Supplément à la monographie des Attides (Attidae Sund.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 1: 125-230, 329-360. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885c). Études arachnologiques. 16e Mémoire. XXIII. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de la Grèce. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 4(4, 1884): 305-356. [[published May 13, 1885]] -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2025-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2025-04-07	Species distribution update	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025	Old value
2016-03-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2016a
2015-02-02	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Bosmans et al., 2013		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002