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

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040964

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Crete)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece m - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 1m 1f (G 7235-7236) - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece 3m 2f - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 7m 4f - (Logunov, 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina, 2002: 251, f. 9-18 (Dmf) Original description

Aelurillus blandus Dobroruka, 2002a: 6, f. 1-2 (f; misidentified per Bosmans et al., 2013: 110)

Aelurillus steliosi Dobroruka, 2002a: 8, f. 11-13 (f; misidentified per Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015: 115)

Aelurillus cretensis Bosmans et al., 2013: 9 (S of Aelurillus steliosi, rejected by Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015: 118, see A. leipoldae)

Aelurillus cretensis Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015: 115, f. 32-34 (f)

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. & Komnenov, M. (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: 109-122. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.516.9439 -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. (2013). Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28(supplement 1): 1-147. -- Show included taxa

Dobroruka, L. J. (2002a). Notes on a collection of jumping spiders from Greece, mainly from Crete (Araneae: Salticidae). Biologia Gallo-hellenica 28: 5-26. -- 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
2015-08-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015
2015-08-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Dobroruka, 2002a
2015-08-31	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Aelurillus leipoldae (Metzner, 1999)
2015-02-02	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Bosmans et al., 2013	Old value
2014-07-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans et al., 2013
2014-07-03	Species synonymy	Bosmans et al., 2013		Aelurillus steliosi synonymized with Aelurillus cretensis