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Genus: Yllenus Simon, 1868 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Yllenus arenarius Simon, 1868

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036839

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Described:

Distribution: Central, Eastern Europe

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

Yllenus arenarius Simon, 1868b: 633, pl. 7, f. 11 (Dmf; attributed to Menge, 1866, but the species was not published by Menge before 1877) Original description

Yllenus arenarius Simon, 1876a: 129, pl. 9, f. 5

Marpesia arenicola Menge, 1877: 472, pl. 77, f. 265 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066032]

Yllenus arenarius Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 27, pl. 1, f. 32 (mf, S of Marpesia arenicola)

Yllenus arenarius Simon, 1901a: 582, f. 701-703

Illenus arenarius Bösenberg, 1903: 437, pl. 42, f. 642 (mf, lapsus)

Yllenus arenarius Dahl & Dahl, 1926: 26, f. 75-77 (mf)

Marpissa arenarius Saito, 1936b: 88, pl. 31 (m; presumably misidentified)

Yllenus arenarius Prószyński, 1968d: 488, f. 9, 29, 44, 56, 71, 178-185 (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 522, f. 1397 (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 64, f. 24A-F (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Żabka, 1997: 107, f. 422-428 (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Bellmann, 1997: 230, f. (m)

Yllenus arenarius Logunov & Marusik, 2003a: 85, f. 1-8, 25, 36-37, 39-41, 46-47, 56, 66. 68, 72, 78, 300-305 (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Wunderlich, 2008f: 718, f. 55-57 (mf)

Yllenus arenarius Prószyński, 2016: 29 (author correction from Menge to Simon; Simon named Menge, but apparantly Simon himself described the species)

References

Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Franckh-Kosmos Stuttgart, 304 pp. -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1903). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. V, VI. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(5-6): 385-465, pl. 37-43. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. & Dahl, M. (1926). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Springspinnen (Salticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 3: 1-55. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Gherasim, V. F. (1995). Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei (Arachnida) 5(5): 1-301. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2003a). A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 168 pp. -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1877). Preussische Spinnen. IX. Fortsetzung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 4: 455-494. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1968d). Systematic revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Araneida, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 26: 409-494. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Saitō, S. (1936b). Arachnida of Jehol. Araneida. Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo (Sect. 5; Div. 1) 3: 1-88. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1868b). Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des Attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 8: 11-72, 529-726, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

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

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008f). Identification key to the European genera of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 698-719, 868. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1997). Salticidae: Pająki skaczące (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna Polski 19: 1-188. -- 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
2016-11-11	Species updated		Old value	Author corrected
2016-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016