Stenaelurillus glaber
| Stenaelurillus glaber | |
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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. glaber
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| Binomial name | |
| Stenaelurillus glaber Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011
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Stenaelurillus glaber is a species of jumping spider in the genus Stenaelurillus that lives in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Uganda. 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 2.58 mm (0.102 in) in length and black abdomen between 2.05 and 2.4 mm (0.081 and 0.094 in) long. The carapace is marked with four stripes and the abdomen by three white spots. It is distinguished from other members of the genus by its clypeus, which is entirely yellow and hairy.
Taxonomy
[edit]Stenaelurillus glaber 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 1885.[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 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.[5] It has been placed in the subtribe Aelurillina in the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia.[6] The species name recalls the lack of any hairs or brushes on the carapace.[7]
Description
[edit]Only the male has been described.[1] The spider is small, with a cephalothorax that measures 2.58 mm (0.102 in) in length and 1.8 mm (0.071 in) in width. It has a dark brown pear-shaped carapace with four stripes, two more pronounced on the main body and two others on the edges.[7] The abdomen is dark brown and has three large white spots on its rear half.[8] It ranges from 2.05 and 2.4 mm (0.081 and 0.094 in) long and is 1.4 mm (0.055 in) wide.[7][9] The eye field is black and has bristles, some of which are white. while the legs are yellow.[8] The pedipalps are also yellow, but have numerous bristles on them, unlike Stenaelurillus pilosus.[10] The palpal bulb is similar to Stenaelurillus hirsutus, Stenaelurillus pilosus and Stenaelurillus striolatus.[11][12] It can be distinguished from these species by the fact that the clypeus is yellow with white hairs.[13] .
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The species was first identified in Nigeria. The holotype for the species was found in Kwara State in 1973. It was found in cultivated savanna.[9] It was subsequently observed near Aburi, Ghana, and Pakwach, Uganda.[14] A further example was identified, a specimen collected in 1975, from Mount Niangbo in Ivory Coast.[15] The distribution now includes all four countries.[1]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c World Spider Catalog (2017). "Stenaelurillus glaber 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.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 279.
- ^ a b c Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011, p. 593.
- ^ a b Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 43.
- ^ a b Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 41.
- ^ Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011, p. 594.
- ^ Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011, p. 598.
- ^ Wesołowska 2014, p. 604.
- ^ Logunov & Azarkina 2018, p. 57.
- ^ Wesołowska 2014, p. 602.
- ^ Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2022, p. 109.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; Russell-Smith, Anthony (2022). "Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 841: 1–143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943.
- 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.