Stenaelurillus striolatus
| Stenaelurillus striolatus | |
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| The related Stenaelurillus albus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Stenaelurillus |
| Species: | S. striolatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Stenaelurillus striolatus Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011
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Stenaelurillus striolatus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Stenaelurillus that is endemic to Nigeria. It was first described in 2011 by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith. Only the male has been identified. The spider is small, with a brown cephalothorax 2.5 mm (0.098 in) in length and black abdomen 2.4 mm (0.094 in) in length. The abdomen is marked with two shining white stripes which give the species its name. It is distinguished from other members of the genus by its clypeus, which is entirely dark brown and black.
Taxonomy
[edit]Stenaelurillus striolatus was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2011.[1] It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska.[2] The genus Stenaelurillus was first raised by Eugène Simon in 1886.[3] The name relates to the genus name Aelurillus, which itself derives from the Greek word for cat, with the addition of a Greek stem meaning narrow.[4] In 2015, Wayne Maddison placed it in the subtribe Aelurillina within the tribe Aelurillini, which is itself in the clade Saltafresia.[5] It was subsequently grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines two years later in 2017.[6] The species name relates to the shining stripes that mark the abdomen.[7]
Description
[edit]Only the male has been described.[1] The spider is small, with a cephalothorax that measures 2.5 mm (0.098 in) in length and 1.8 mm (0.071 in) in width. It has a brown pear-shaped carapace with two stripes formed by white hairs.[7] The abdomen is narrower than other species in the genus, and is black with three distinctive shining stripes.[8] The shape of the abdomen differs from other species of Stenaelurillus, which are typically oblong.[9] It is 2.4 mm (0.094 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide.[10] The eye field is black, while the legs are yellow, as are the pedipalps.[11] The palpal bulb is similar to Stenaelurillus glaber, Stenaelurillus hirsutus and Stenaelurillus pilosus.[8][12] It can be distinguished from these species by the fact that the clypeus is entirely dark brown and black.[13] .
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The species is endemic to Nigeria.[14] The holotype for the species was found in the Borgu Game Reserve in Kwara State in 1973. It was found in cultivated savanna.[10]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b World Spider Catalog (2017). "Stenaelurillus striolatus Wesolowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ Wiśniewski 2020, p. 6.
- ^ Logunov 2020, p. 202.
- ^ Fernández-Rubio 2013, p. 125.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 279.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
- ^ a b Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011, p. 597.
- ^ a b Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011, p. 598.
- ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman 2014, p. 219.
- ^ a b Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 103.
- ^ Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 104.
- ^ Wesołowska 2014, p. 604.
- ^ Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 41.
- ^ Wesołowska 2014, p. 597.
Bibliography
[edit]- Dippenaar-Schoeman, Ansie (2014). Field Guide to South African Spiders. Pretoria: LAPA Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7993-6018-9.
- Fernández-Rubio, Fidel (2013). "La etimología de los nombres de las arañas (Araneae)" [The etymology of the names of spiders (Araneae)]. Revista ibérica de Aracnología (in Spanish) (22): 125–130. ISSN 1576-9518.
- Logunov, Dmitri V. (2020). "Further notes on the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 from India (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4899 (1): 201–214. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.11. PMID 33756833. S2CID 232339218.
- Logunov, Dmitri V.; Azarkina, Galina N. (2018). "Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (430): 1–126. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.430.
- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
- Wesołowska, Wanda (2014). "Further notes on the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) in Africa with descriptions of eight new species". Zoosystema. 36 (3): 595–622. doi:10.5252/z2014n3a3. S2CID 86684221. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; Russell-Smith, Anthony (2011). "Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Southern Nigeria". Annales Zoologici. 63 (3): 553–561. doi:10.3161/000345411X603409. S2CID 83517018. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- Wiśniewski, Konrad (2020). "Over 40 years with jumping spiders: on the 70th birthday of Wanda Wesołowska". Zootaxa. 4899 (1): 5–14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.3. PMID 33756825. S2CID 232337200.