Stenaelurillus sudanicus
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| Stenaelurillus sudanicus | |
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| The related Stenaelurillus albus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Stenaelurillus |
| Species: | S. sudanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenaelurillus sudanicus Wesołowska, 2014 | |
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 2.2 mm (0.087 in) long and an abdomen 2.5 mm (0.098 in) 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.
Stenaelurillus sudanicus was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2014.[1] It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist.[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, which he positioned in the tribe Aelurillini within the clade Saltafresia.[5] In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.[6] The species name derives from the country where it was first found, Sudan.[7]