Pulchellodromus

Pulchellodromus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Philodromidae
Genus:	Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 [1]
Type species
P. pulchellus (Lucas, 1846)
Species
13, see text

Pulchellodromus is a genus of running crab spiders that was first separated from Philodromus by J. Wunderlich in 2012. ^[2]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in parts of Africa, Europe and Asia. ^[1]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes thirteen species: ^[1]

• Pulchellodromus afroglaucinus (Muster & Bosmans, 2007) – Algeria
• Pulchellodromus bistigma (Simon, 1870) – Mediterranean
• Pulchellodromus glaucinus (Simon, 1870) – Mediterranean
• Pulchellodromus lamellipalpis (Muster, 2007) – Algeria
• Pulchellodromus mainlingensis (Hu & Li, 1987) – Tibet
• Pulchellodromus medius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran
• Pulchellodromus navarrus Kastrygina, Kovblyuk & Polchaninova, 2016 – Spain
• Pulchellodromus pardalis (Muster & Bosmans, 2007) – Portugal, Spain, Algeria to Egypt
• Pulchellodromus pulchellus (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean (type species)
• Pulchellodromus punctiger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908) – Canary Islands, Spain
• Pulchellodromus ruficapillus (Simon, 1885) – Mediterranean to Kazakhstan
• Pulchellodromus simoni (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Portugal, Spain, Algeria
• Pulchellodromus wunderlichi (Muster & Thaler, 2007) – Canary Islands

In synonymy:

• P. glaucinoides(Wunderlich, 1987) = Pulchellodromus punctiger(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908)
• P. glaucinus(Strand, 1913) = Pulchellodromus pulchellus(Lucas, 1846)
• P. marionschmidti(Schmidt, 1990) = Pulchellodromus pulchellus(Lucas, 1846)
• P. salinarum(Denis, 1939) = Pulchellodromus glaucinus(Simon, 1870)
• P. torquatus(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) = Pulchellodromus pulchellus(Lucas, 1846)

References

1. "Gen. Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-09.
2. Wunderlich, J. (2012). "Fifteen papers on extant and fossil spiders (Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 7: 38.

External links

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