Stenaelurillus sudanicus
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| taxon = Stenaelurillus sudanicus
| authority = Wesołowska, 2014
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Stenaelurillus sudanicus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Stenaelurillus that lives in Sudan. It was first described in 2014 by Wanda Wesołowska. Only the female has been identified. The spider is small, with a brown cephalothorax {{convert|2.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and an abdomen {{convert|2.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} in length. The abdomen has markings similar to a spider of the genus Phlegra. It is distinguished from other members of the genus Stenaelurillus by the way that the copulatory openings face backwards.
Taxonomy and etymology
Stenaelurillus sudanicus was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2014.{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2017|title=Stenaelurillus sudanicus Wesolowska, 2014|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/53939/Stenaelurillus_sudanicus|version=18.0|access-date=27 November 2017}} It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist.{{sfn|Wiśniewski|2020|page=6}} The genus Stenaelurillus was first raised by Eugène Simon in 1886.{{sfn|Logunov|2020|page=202}} 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.{{sfn|Fernández-Rubio|2013|page=125}} In 2015, Wayne Maddison placed it in the subtribe Aelurillina, which he positioned in the tribe Aelurillini within the clade Saltafresia.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=279}} In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=95}} The species name derives from the country where it was first found, Sudan.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2014|page=616}}
Description
Only the female has been described. The spider is small, with a cephalothorax that measures {{convert|2.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} in length and {{convert|1.7|mm|in|abbr=on}} in width and an abdomen that is {{convert|2.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|1.9|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2014|page=616}} It has a brown carapace with a pair of white streaks, one along the edge of the body and the other stretching from the front to back. The eye field is black, while the legs are brown. The abdomen has markings that are more typical for spiders from the Phlegra genus, with three white stripes on a black background. The spider has yellowish grey pedipalps and a round palpal bulb. The epigyne has a deep pocket with copulatory openings placed to the side.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2014|page=618}} It differs from the similar Stenaelurillus siyamae, also found in the same area, by the way that the copulatory openings face backwards.{{sfn|Logunov|Azarkina|2018|page=99}}
Distribution and habitat
The distribution is restricted to Sudan. The holotype for the species was found near Kerma in 1989. It was discovered in a house, which implies a level of comfort the spider has living in areas of human habitation.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2014|page=618}}
References
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- {{cite journal | last=Fernández-Rubio | first=Fidel | title=La etimología de los nombres de las arañas (Araneae) | trans-title=The etymology of the names of spiders (Araneae) | journal=Revista ibérica de Aracnología | number=22 | pages=125–130 | ISSN=1576-9518 | year=2013 | language=ES}}
- {{cite journal | last=Logunov | first=Dmitri V. | year=2020 | title=Further notes on the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4899 | number=1 | pages=201–214 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.11 | pmid=33756833 | s2cid=232339218 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Logunov | first1=Dmitri V. | last2=Azarkina | first2=Galina N. | year=2018 | title=Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) | journal=European Journal of Taxonomy | volume=430 | pages=1–126 | doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.430| doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Maddison | first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=The Journal of Arachnology | year= 2015 | volume=43 | number=3 | pages=231–292 | doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}
- {{cite journal | last=Prószyński | first=Jerzy | year=2017 | title=Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae) | journal=Ecologica Montenegrina | volume=12 | pages=1–133 | doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | last=Wesołowska | first=Wanda | year=2014 | title=Further notes on the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) in Africa with descriptions of eight new species | journal=Zoosystema | volume=36 | number=3 | pages=595–622 | doi=10.5252/z2014n3a3|s2cid=86684221|url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.5252/z2014n3a3 | accessdate=7 December 2017}}
- {{cite journal | last=Wiśniewski | first=Konrad | title=Over 40 years with jumping spiders: on the 70th birthday of Wanda Wesołowska | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4899 | number=1 | year=2020 | pages=5–14 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.3 | pmid=33756825 | s2cid=232337200 }}
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Category:Endemic fauna of Sudan