Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Africa Galina N. AZARKINA ABSTRACT A ZARKI NA, G.N. 2009. Two new species of the genus Aelul'illus Simon, 18R5 (Araneae, Salticidae) from .\frica. J. Afrotl'Op. Zool. 5: 171-177. Two new species of Aelurillus, A. russellsmithi sp.n. from Cote d'Ivoire, and A. 1IIadagascariensis sp. n. from Madagascar, are diagnosed, illustrated and described. Distribution maps are provided for both species. AZARK IN A, G. N. Section of Invertebrates non-ins ects, Royal Mu s<.: um for Cent r al AfricJ, Jeuv<.:nseste<.:nweg 13,8-3080 , Tervuren, Belgium (urmakuz@yahoo.com); Zoo logical Museum, Institute for Systemarics and Ecology of Animals. SB RAS. l'run z<.: Stn:<.:r 11 . 630091, Ru ssia Keywords: new species, Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Madagascar. INTRODUCTION The genus Aelurillus Simon, 1885 currently includes approximately 60 species, 19 of which occur in North Africa (Platnick 200R). Azarkina & Logunov (2006) recently redescribed several of the ='-lorth African species. A revision of the entire genus will be pub- lished by the author. The present paper describes the first representatives of the genus Aelurillus in tropical Africa. One species was found in a rice field experiment in Cote d'Ivoire , whereas the second was caught in yellow pan traps in forest in Madagascar. MATERIAL AND METHODS This work is based on the collections of jumping spi- ders from the Royal Museum for Centr al Africa and material from the personal collection of D r. A.Rus- sell-Smith. All specimens were examined in ethanol and descriptions of colours refer to specimens in alco- hol. The drawings were made with the aid of a ret ic - ular eyepiece attached to a MBS-l 0 ste reomicro - scope. The male pedipalps and the epigynes were detached for study. The epigynes were macerated in pancreatin in a borax-soluti on (Alwarez-Padilla & Hormiga 2007) for one night . After drawing, the copulatory organs were placed in microvials wi th ethanol with the specinlens from which th ey had been removed. The photo s were made with a Leica DFC 500 camera attached to the stereomicroscope. All drawings were edited with Adobe Photoshop, all maps were prepared using CorelDraw Graphic Suite. Holotypes are depo sited in the Musee royal de I'Afrique centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (indicated as MRAC in the text, Or R. Jucque); some parat ypes are kept in MRAC, in the British Museum of Nat- ural History, London, UK (BMNH, Mrs J. Beccaloni), in the Zoological Museum ofInstitute for Sys temat- ICS and Ecology of Animals, ='-lovosibirsk, Ru ssia (ISEA, Dr G.N. Azarkina), and in the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (MMUM, Dr DY Logunov). Abbreviations used in the text: WARDA: West African Rice Development Association, AME: ante- rior median eyes, PME: posterior median eyes, PLE: posterior lateral eyes, Fm: femur, Pt: patella, Ti: tibia, Mt: metatarsus . The sequence of leg segments in meas urement data is as follows: femur + pa tella + tibia + metatarsus + tarsus. All measurements are in mm. For the leg spination the system adopted is that by used by Ono (1988). Aelurillus russellsmithi n. sp. Figur es 1-13,29,30-32 ,3 5 Type material Holotype: 0' : CO TE D'IVOIRE: Bouake, WARDA, ca. r41' N, 5°02'W, weed tra sh experiment, 2 1. X.1994, A. Russell-Smith (MRAC 225.259 ). Paraty pes: COTE D' IVOIRE: 5 0' : Bouake, WARDA, ca . r 41'N, 5° 02'W, weed tra sh expe riment, 21.X. 19 94, A. Russell -Smith (MRAC 225.257); 3 0': same localit y, weed t rash experiment, 2 1. X .1 994, A. Russe ll -Smith (BMNH); same locality, quadrats, weed co nt rol, 17 .VIII. 1994, A. Russell-Smith (MRAC 225.258 ); 1 same locality, quadrats, weed contro l, 17.VIII.1994, A. Russell-Smith (BM NH); 3 171