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

Aelurillus leipoldae (Metzner, 1999)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032369

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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: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (AR 13334) of Aelurillus steliosi - (Růžička et al., 2005)
Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany m (ARA 02177) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: National Museum – Natural History Museum, Praha (NMP), Czech Republic 7j (P6E-2971, 2972) of Aelurillus steliosi - (Růžička et al., 2005)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO-0027940, ex coll. Senglet) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Heiko Metzner Private Collection, Karlsruhe, Germany 1m - (Metzner, 1999)
Allotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (AR 13335) of Aelurillus steliosi - (Růžička et al., 2005)

Taxonomic References

Asianellus leipoldae Metzner, 1999: 72, f. 37a-i (Dm) Original description

Aelurillus leipoldae Azarkina, 2002: 253, f. 31-42 (mf, T from Asianellus)

Aelurillus steliosi Dobroruka, 2002a: 8, f. 5-10 (Dm; f f. 11-13 see Aelurillus cretensis) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039051]

Aelurillus leipoldae Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015: 118, f. 29-31 (m, S of Aelurillus steliosi, removed from S of A. cretensis, rejecting Bosmans et al., 2013: 9)

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

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

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- 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	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015	Old value
2015-08-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015
2015-08-31	Species synonymy	Azarkina & Komnenov, 2015		Aelurillus steliosi synonymized with Aelurillus leipoldae