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| taxon = Stenaelurillus wandae<br />
| authority = [[Dmitri V. Logunov|Logunov]], 2020<br />
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'''''Stenaelurillus wandae''''' is a [[species]] of [[jumping spider]] in the [[genus]] ''[[Stenaelurillus]]'' that lives in India. It was first described in 2020 by Dmitri Logunov. The spider is medium-sized, with a [[carapace]] between {{convert|2.95|and|3.35|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and an [[Opisthosoma|abdomen]] between {{convert|2.8|and|3.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} long. The female is larger than the male. The colouration differs between them too, with the male having two white stripes on the carapace while the female has a pattern formed of brown and white scales. The [[chelicerae]], [[Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)|clypeus]], legs, [[pedipalp]]s and [[spinnerets]] are generally yellow, although they may be yellow-brown on the male. The spider is distinguished from others in the area by the lack of a pocket in the [[epigyne]] of the female and the forked appendage, with different length tines, on the [[palpal bulb]] of the male.<br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
''Stenaelurillus wandae'' was first described by Dmitri Logunov in 2020.<ref name=wsc>{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2023|title=''Stenaelurillus wandae'' Logunov, 2020|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url= https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/58900/Stenaelurillus_wandae|version=24.0|access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> It was placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Stenaelurillus]]'', first raised by [[Eugène Simon]] in 1886.{{sfn|Sudhin|Sen|Caleb|2023|page=124, 132}} The genus 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.{{sfn|Fernández-Rubio|2013|page=125}} The [[species]] is named after [[Wanda Wesołowska]], the Polish [[Arachnology|arachnologist]], in celebration of her 70th birthday.{{sfn|Logunov|2020|page=210}} The genus had been placed in the subtribe Aelurillina in the [[Tribe (biology)|tribe]] Aelurillini by [[Wayne Maddison]] in 2015, who listed the tribe in the [[Clade (biology)|clade]] Saltafresia.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=279}} Two years later, in 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=95}}<br />
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==Description==<br />
The spider is medium-sized. The male has a yellow-brown [[carapace]] that measures {{convert|2.95|mm|in|abbr=on}} in length and {{convert|2.05|mm|in|abbr=on}} in width and is covered in scales forming a pattern of two white stripes along the top and yellow bands on the side. The [[Opisthosoma|abdomen]] is dark brown, {{convert|2.8|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|2|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide, with yellow edges and greyish-yellow sides. The [[Spider vision|eye field]] is dark brown. The [[chelicerae]] is yellow and the [[Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)|clypeus]] is yellow-brown with white bristles. The [[spinnerets]] are brown, the legs are yellow and the [[pedipalp]]s are yellow, with a brown tint to some of the extemities. The [[palpal bulb]] is rounded and has distinctive appendages. The [[Palpal bulb|embolus]] is slightly curved and has a large elongated base. It has a long retrolateral tibial apophysis, which is distinctively fork-shaped and distinguishes the species from others in the genus. The spider is similar to ''[[Stenaelurillus furcatus]]'', which also has a long fork-like projection but the tines in this species are different lengths.{{sfn|Logunov|2020|page=210}} It also differs from other species in the area by its lack of a fringe.{{sfn|Marathe|Sanap|Joglekar|Caleb|2022|page=16}}<br />
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The female is similar to the male in shape but overall larger. The yellow carapace is {{convert|3.35|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|2.28|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide and covered with brown and white scales. The abdomen has a length of {{convert|3.5|in|abbr=on}} and width of {{convert|2.8|mm|in|abbr=on}}. The chelicerae, clypeus, pedipalps, spinnerets and legs are all yellow. The [[epigyne]] is flat and has no pocket. The two copulatory openings are round and very close to each other. The insemination ducts are short, at the same depth as they are wide at the opening. The spider is unusual amongst ''Stenaelurillus'' species found in the region in that it lacks an epigynal pocket.{{sfn|Logunov|2020|pages=210, 212}}<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to India.<ref name=wsc/> The [[holotype]] was identified based on a specimen collected in [[Odisha]] in 2014.{{sfn|Logunov|2020|page=212}} It was subsequently also found to live in [[Bihar]].{{sfn|Sudhin|Sen|Caleb|2023|page=132}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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*{{cite journal | last=Fernández-Rubio | first=Fidel | title=La etimología de los nombres de las arañas (Araneae) | trans-title=The etymology of the names of spiders (Araneae) | journal=Revista ibérica de Aracnología | number=22 | pages=125–130 | issn=1576-9518 | year=2013 | language=ES}}<br />
*{{cite journal | last=Logunov | first=Dmitri V. | year=2020 | title=Further notes on the genus ''Stenaelurillus'' Simon, 1885 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4899 | number=1 | pages=201–214 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.11 | pmid=33756833 | s2cid=232339218 | url=http://publication.plazi.org/id/EE521E02D73FFFAAFFB2FFE3FFFDFFBE }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last1=Maddison | first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=The Journal of Arachnology | year= 2015 | volume=43 | number=3 | pages=231–292 | doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last1=Marathe | first1=Kiran | first2=Rajesh | last2=Sanap | first3=Anuradha | last3=Joglekar | first4=John T. D. | last4=Caleb | first5=Wayne P. | last5=Maddison | year=2022 | title=Three new and notes on two other jumping spider species of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Salticidae: Aelurillina) from the Deccan Plateau, India | journal=Zootaxa | volume=5125 | number=1 | pages=1–19| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5125.1.1 | pmid=35391097 }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last=Prószyński | first=Jerzy | year=2017 | title=Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae) | journal=Ecologica Montenegrina | volume=12 | pages=1–133 | doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| doi-access=free }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last1=Sudhin | first1=Puthoor Pattammal | first2=Souvik | last2=Sen | first3=John T. D. | last3=Caleb | year=2023 | title=Two new ''Stenaelurillus'' species (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillina) from Western Ghats, India | journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution | volume=99 | number=1 | pages=123–133 | doi=10.3897/zse.99.97985| doi-access=free }}<br />
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[[Category:Arthropods of India]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic fauna of India]]<br />
[[Category:Salticidae]]<br />
[[Category:Spiders described in 2020]]<br />
[[Category:Spiders of the Indian subcontinent]]<br />
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