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

Aelurillus russellsmithi Azarkina, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042965

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Ghana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (225259) - (Azarkina, 2009b)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 5m 2f (225257-225258) - (Azarkina, 2009b)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 3m 1f - (Azarkina, 2009b)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 3m (G7486.1) - (Azarkina, 2009b)
Paratype: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 3m - (Azarkina, 2009b)

Taxonomic References

Aelurillus russellsmithi Azarkina, 2009b: 171, f. 1-13, 30-32, 35 (Dmf) Original description

Aelurillus russellsmithi Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 601, f. 2A-D (m)

References

Azarkina, G. (2009b). Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Africa. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 5: 171-177. -- Show included taxa

Wawer, W. & Wesołowska, W. (2025). Jumping spiders from Ghana collected by J. Prószyński (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(2): 599-628. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.2.013 -- 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.

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
2025-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2018-04-27	Species updated		Old value	Species epithet corrected