Endemic to Cyprus Family: Salticidae
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Description
Aelurillus are typically about 7 mm long in females, and up to 5 mm in males. They are stout, squat-shaped and rather furry, with females often uniformly mottled sandy brown, while males are often black, sometimes with a pattern and with light, annulated legs.
Habits
Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy).
A Southeast Asian Aelurillus species has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it. They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low vegetation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many thanks to Christos Zoumides for helping us to find the species.
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