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{{Short description|Species of spider}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Langelurillus namibicus 108591935.jpg
| image_caption = A spider of the ''[[Langelurillus]]'' genus
| taxon = Langelurillus kenyaensis
| authority = Dawidowicz & [[Wanda Wesołowska|Wesołowska]], 2016
}}
'''''Langelurillus kenyaensis''''' is a [[species]] of [[jumping spider]] in the [[genus]] ''[[Langelurillus]]'' that is [[Endemism|endemic]] in Kenya. It was first [[Species description|described]] in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and [[Wanda Wesołowska]], and is named after the country where it was first identified. The spider is small, with a black oval [[carapace]] that is typically {{convert|2.8|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and a blackish-grey spherical [[Opisthosoma|abdomen]] {{convert|2.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} long. The short [[Arthropod leg|legs]] are orangish-brown have large dark markings, brown hairs and brown spines. Only the female has been described. It has a small [[epigyne]] and longer seminal ducts that are looped, which distinguishes it from the otherwise similar ''[[Langelurillus primus]]''.

==Taxonomy==
''Langelurillus kenyaensis'' is a [[jumping spider]] that was first [[Species description|described]] by Angelika Dawidowicz and [[Wanda Wesołowska]] in 2016.<ref name=wsc>{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2017|title=''Langelurillus kenyaensis'' Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/55150|version=18.0|access-date=7 May 2017}}</ref> It was one of over 500 [[species]] identified by the Polish [[Arachnology|arachnologist]] Wesołowska during her career, which was more than almost any other scientist in the discipline.{{sfn|Wiśniewski|2020|page=6}} It was allocated it to the [[genus]] ''[[Langelurillus]]'', which had been raised by Maciej Próchniewicz in 1994.{{sfn|Próchniewicz|1994|page=27}} The genus is related to ''[[Aelurillus]]'' and ''[[Langona]]'' but the spiders are smaller and, unlike these genera and ''[[Phlegra (spider)|Phlegra]]'', they lack the parallel stripes on the back of the body that is feature of the majority of these spiders.{{sfn|Próchniewicz|1994|page=28}} In 2015, [[Wayne Maddison]] listed the genus in the [[subtribe]] [[Aelurillina]], which also contains ''Aelurillus'', ''Langona'' and ''Phlegra'', in the [[Tribe (biology)|tribe]] Aelurillini, within the subclade Saltafresia in the [[Clade (biology)|clade]] [[Salticoida]].{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=279}} In 2016, [[Jerzy Prószyński]] placed the same genera in a group named Aelurillines based on the shape of the spiders' copulatory organs.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=95}}

==Description==
''Langelurillus kenyaensis'' is a small spider. The male has a [[cephalothorax]] that is typically {{convert|2.8|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|1.9|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide. The [[carapace]] is a black high oval and covered with greyish-white hairs. The [[Spider vision|eye field]] is also black. The [[Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)|clypeus]] has long translusclent hairs. The [[chelicerae]] are light brown with one very small tooth visible to the front.  The [[Labium (arthropod mouthpart)|labium]] is brownish with pale tips. The [[Opisthosoma|abdomen]] is typically {{convert|2.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|2.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide and rounder than the carapace, nearly spherical. It is blackish-grey and covered with dense grey hairs. The underside is light. The [[spinneret]]s are long and yellow with dark ends and the short [[Arthropod leg|legs]] are orangish-brown with large dark markings, brown hairs and brown spines. The [[epigyne]] is very small. The seminal ducts, which are longer and more convoluted than those on the similar ''[[Langelurillus primus]]'', form a loop and lead to bean-shaped and very [[Sclerotization|sclerotised]] [[spermatheca]]e.{{sfn|Dawidowicz|Wesołowska|2016|page=448}}

==Distribution==
Almost all, if not all, ''Langelurillus'' spiders live in sub-Saharan Africa.{{sfn|Logunov|Azarkina|2018|page=120}} ''Langelurillus kenyaensis'' was first identified in Kenya, after which it is named. The [[holotype]] was discovered in 1965 on [[Mount Elgon]].{{sfn|Dawidowicz|Wesołowska|2016|page=448}} It has only been found in that area of the country.{{sfn|Kioko|Marusik|Li|Kioko|2021|page=164}}

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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite journal | last1=Dawidowicz | first1=Angelika | last2=Wesołowska | first2=Wanda | year=2016 | title=Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya Collected by Åke Holm | journal=Annales Zoologici | volume=66 | number=3 | pages=437–466 | doi=10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 | s2cid=89556915 | author-link2=Wanda Wesołowska}}
*{{cite journal | last1=Kioko | first1=Grace M. | first2=Yuri M. | last2=Marusik | first3=Shuqiang | last3=Li | first4= Esther N. | last4=Kioko | first5=Liqiang | last5=Ji | title=Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Kenya | journal=African Invertebrates | volume=62 | number=1 | year=2021 | pages=47–229 | doi=10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.58776| s2cid=234148710 | doi-access=free }}
*{{cite journal | last1=Logunov | first1=Dmitri V. | last2=Azarkina | first2=Galina N. | year=2018 | title=Redefinition and partial revision of the genus ''Stenaelurillus'' Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) | journal=European Journal of Taxonomy | volume=430 | pages=1–126 | doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.430| doi-access=free }}
*{{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 | author-link=Wayne Maddison}}
*{{cite journal | last=Próchniewicz | first=Maciej | year=1994 | title=The jumping spiders of the Ethiopian Region. Part I. New genus ''Langelurillus'' gen. n. (Araneae, Salticidae) from Kenya | journal=Annales Zoologici, Warszawa | issue=45 | pages=27–31}}
*{{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 | author-link=Jerzy Prószyński| doi-access=free }}
*{{cite journal | last=Wiśniewski | first=Konrad | title=Over 40 years with jumping spiders: on the 70th birthday of Wanda Wesołowska | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4899 | number=1 | year=2020 | pages=5–14 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.3 | pmid=33756825  | s2cid=232337200 }}
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[[Category:Endemic fauna of Kenya]]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Spiders described in 2016]]
[[Category:Spiders of Africa]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska]]