Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)

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

SZYNSKI the material was sent back from the Museum of Bergamo by PAOLO PANTINI to the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Although the scientific methods used in the middle of the 20th century were precise enough to result significant studies (e.g. LESSERT 1936), CAPORIACCO had not made detailed drawings of the copulatory organs and/or the internal structure of the female genitalia of each species he described. The maturity of a specimen was not even a requirement to become the type of a species. Therefore his species could not be recognised without doubt - not even his identification could be used as sure data. Therefore study and redescriptions of his species are badly needed, to avoid describing species more than once. Now our first result, the redescription of Aelurillus subaffínis is presented here. Fortunately we could also compare the species with two other, closely related species: Aelurillus faragallai PRÓSZYNSKI, 1993 and Aelurillus aeruginosus (SIMON, 1871). MATERIALS AND METHODS The examined specimens are kept in the following institutions: A female specimens, which is a syntype of three taxa {Attus mustellatus SIMON, 1868, Attus arenicolor SIMON, 1868 and Attus aeruginosus SIMON, 1871), is in the Natural History Museum, Paris (curator: CHRISTINE ROLLARD). The specimen was originally described as the female of Attus mustellatus (SIMON 1868: 530), but the name proved to be a junior homonym of Attus mustellatus NlCOLET, 1849. Having discovered his mistake, SIMON proposed in the Errata of the same paper (SIMON 1868: 723) a new name: Attus arenicolor SIMON, 1868, but it was a junior homonym of Attus arenicolor GRUBE, 1861, so the name was changed again (SIMON 1871: 154) to Attus aeruginosus SIMON, 1871, which was later tranferred to the genus Aelurillus SIMON, 1884. The paratype female of Aelurillus faragallai PRÓSZYNSKI, 1993 is kept in the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa (curator: TOMASZ HUFLEJT), and two syntype females of Aelurillus subaffínis CAPORIACCO, 1947 in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (curator: SÁNDOR MAHUNKA). Fordescription of the leg spination the system used by ONO (1988) is adopted. Drawings were made by the second author using the grid method. Measurements are given in millimetres. Abbreviations - AME = anterior median eye, ap = apical, d = dorsal, Fm = femur, HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum, IZPAS = Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Mt = metatarsus, NHMP = Natural History Museum, Paris, PLE = posterior lateral eye, Pt = patella, pr = prolateral, rt = retrolateral, Ta = tarsus, Tb = tibia, v = ventral. RESULTS Aelurillus subaffínis CAPORIACCO, 1947, Aelurillus aeruginosus (SIMON, 1871) and Aelurillus faragallai PRÓSZYNSKI, 1993 are considered separate, but closely related species. The females can be distinguished with certainty by the study of in-