Aelurillus galinae
Aelurillus galinae is a species of jumping spider in the genus Aelurillus that is endemic to the United Arab Emirates. It was first described in 2010 by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten. The species is small with a cephalothorax that is between 1.5 and 1.8 mm (0.059 and 0.071 in) long and an abdomen that is between 1.4 and 2.2 mm (0.055 and 0.087 in) long. The female is larger than the male. The female has a spherical abdomen that has a grey and fawn pattern. The male abdomen has a wide brown stripe across the middle and is otherwise yellow. The carapace of both similar. The species is distinguished by the way that the front set of eyes extend beyond the front of the carapace and the way that the appendages on the male palpal bulb have blended.
| Aelurillus galinae | |
|---|---|
| The related Aelurillus v-insignitus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Aelurillus |
| Species: | A. galinae |
| Binomial name | |
| Aelurillus galinae Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 | |
Taxonomy edit
Aelurillus galinae is a jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten in 2010.[1] It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist Wesolowska.[2] It was placed in the genus Aelurillus that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.[3] The genus name derives from the Greek word for cat.[4] The species is named after the arachnologist Galina Azarkina.[5] It was placed in the subtribe Aelurillina in the tribe Aelurillini, both named after the genus, by Wayne Maddison in 2015. These were allocated to the clade Saltafresia.[6] In 2017, the genus was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.[7]
Description edit
Aelurillus galinae is a small spider. The male has a cephalothorax that is between 1.5 and 1.6 mm (0.059 and 0.063 in) in length and 1.2 and 1.4 mm (0.047 and 0.055 in) in width. It has a brown carapace and a short black eye field, with a pattern of four thin lines formed of white hairs on the eye field that merge into two wider stripes on the thorax. The carapace has a distinctive shape, particularly at the front, with the front set of eyes extending beyond the body, particularly the central eyes. The yellow abdomen is between 1.4 and 1.6 mm (0.055 and 0.063 in) long and 1 and 1.1 mm (0.039 and 0.043 in) wide and has a wide brown stripe across the middle. The clypeus is brown with light hair, the chelicerae light brown with dark hairs and the spinnerets are greyish. The legs are yellow and hairy. The pedipalps are also light in colour, which is accentuated by them being covered in white hairs. The palpal bulb has two short tibial apophyses and distinctive blended appendages that extend from the middle.[5]
The female is slightly larger than the male, with a cephalothorax that is 1.7 and 1.8 mm (0.067 and 0.071 in) long and 1.3 and 1.4 mm (0.051 and 0.055 in) wide and an abdomen 1.9 and 2.2 mm (0.075 and 0.087 in) long and 1.9 and 2.2 mm (0.075 and 0.087 in) wide. The colouring of the carapace is similar, although the lines are less clear, but the distinctive position of the eyes is the same. The abdomen is very different, being spherical and swollen in shape and patterned with fawn and greyish patches. The legs are spotted brown, but otherwise also similar. The epigyne is typical for the genus.[5] It has a pocket and wings lining the copulatory openings.[3]
Distribution edit
The spider is endemic to the United Arab Emirates. First found in Sharjah Desert Park in Sharjah, it has also been identified in Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in Abu Dhabi.[5][8]
References edit
Citations edit
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Aelurillus galinae Wesolowska & & van Harten, 2010". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ Wiśniewski 2020, p. 6.
- ^ a b Azarkina 2022, p. 220.
- ^ Fernández-Rubio 2013, p. 125.
- ^ a b c d Wesołowska & van Harten 2010, p. 28.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 279.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
- ^ Wesołowska & van Harten 2020, p. 608.
Bibliography edit
- Azarkina, Galina N. (2022). "A new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Kenya" (PDF). Arachnolog. 19 (Special Issue): 220–223.
- 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.
- 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; van Harten, Antonius (2010). "Order Araneae, family Salticidae". In van Harten, Antonius (ed.). Arthropod fauna of the UAE. Vol. 3. Abu Dhabi: Dar Al Ummah. pp. 27–69. ISBN 978-9-94815-616-1. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; van Harten, Antonius (2020). "Notes on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Abu Dhabi Emirate". Arachnology. 18 (6): 607–611. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.607.
- 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.