title: Descriptions of two new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, with the synonymization of A.steliosi Dobroruka, 2002.
abstract: Two Aelurillus species are described as new, Aelurillusalboclypeus sp. n. (♂♀, from Turkey) and Aelurillusdeltshevi sp. n. (♂, from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan). Aelurillussteliosi Dobroruka, 2002 is synonymized with Aelurillusleipoldae (Metzner, 1999). Additional distributions of the closely related species Aelurillusv-insignitus are provided for the region of study. Distributional maps are provided for the five species reported in this paper.
authors: The Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.
authors: Galina N
authors: GN
authors: Azarkina
authors: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupoli, Greece.
authors: Marjan
authors: M
authors: Komnenov
keywords: Aranei; Mediterranean; jumping spiders; synonymy