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Szűts, T. ; Azarkina, G. N.: Redescription of Aelurillus subaffinis Caporiacco, 1947 (Araneae: Salticidae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 94 Budapest, 2002 pp. 209-215. Redescription of Aelurillus subaffínis Caporiacco, 1947 (Araneae: Salticidae) T. SZUTS

1 and G. N. AZARKINA

2 'Systematic Zoology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. sétány 1/c, Hungary; and Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: tszuts@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu 2

Zoological Museum, Institute for Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk, 630091 Russia E-mail: mu3@ eco. nsc. ru Abstract - The jumping spider species Aelurillus subaffínis CAPORIACCO, 1947 is redescribed and illustrated, its lectotype and a paralectotype are designated. Comparison and notes on the closely related species A. aeruginosus (SIMON, 1871) and A. faragallai PRÓSZYNSKI, 1993 are given. With 10 figures. Key words - Taxonomy, Aelurillus subaffínis, Salticidae, Afrotropical region. INTRODUCTION KÁLMÁN KlTTENBERGER, the famous Hungarian hunter collected for the Hungarian Natural History Museum several times in Africa in the first decade of the 20th century. Although he focused mainly on mammals, the number of spiders he collected seems to be relevant as well (about 200 specimens only from the spider family Salticidae). A part of his collection was lent for study as unidentified around 1940 to LUDOVICO DI CAPORIACCO, but it was not returned until 1999, except the specimens studied by WANLESS, i. e. the holotypes of Pseudomarengo inermis CAPORIACCO, 1947 and P. rufescens CAPORIACCO, 1947 (WANLESS 1981) which were sent back earlier. Presumably this is the reason why the material still exists in a good condition, because in the Hungarian Natural History Museum there was a fire in 1956, and most of the collection was destroyed. On the other hand DI CAPORIACCO had described 3 new salticid genera and 19 new species (CAPORIACCO 1947) from that material, and the types were not accessible for scientific study, since nobody knew their whereabouts. Finally in 1999, with the kind assistance of Dr. JERZY PRÓ-