CYPRUS FLORA AND FAUNA

JUMPING SPIDER Aelurillus cypriotus Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina, 2006 is a spider in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It is the only known endemic jumping spider found in Cyprus. It’s a small spider about 7 mm long in females, and up to 5 mm in males. It is stout, squat-shaped and rather furry. Females are often uniformly mottled sandy brown, while males are brown- reddish, with a rhombus pattern on their cephalothorax. Jumping spiders like hot, dry, stony places, or small, bare, open areas, or low vegetation. They feed mainly on ants and small flies, and they catch their prey by jumping 10-20 times their size! Female Male