Stenaelurillus bandama

The spider is medium-sized. The male has a brown frontal section, or carapace, that is typically 2.45 mm (0.096 in) long and 1.8 mm (0.071 in) wide. It is covered in dark brown scales and has two wide stripes made of white scales running down the middle from to the back. There is a fovea between the last row of eyes but this is hard to see due to the scales. Its eye field has a covering of short, protruding white-transparent iridescent hairs. The underside of its cephalothorax, or sternum, is brown. Its face, or clypeus is brownish yellow and is marked with vertical stripes of short dense black hairs. The middle of clypeus and its cheeks are covered with long, white-transparent iridescent hairs. There are similar hairs on the middle of its brown-yellow chelicerae. Its remaining mouthparts, including its labium and maxillae, are brownish-yellow. Behind its carapace, the spider's abdomen is dark brown on top with a pattern of three white spots and two stripes and yellow with a pattern of four stripes of brown hair underneath. It measures typically 2.4 mm (0.094 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide. Its book lung covers are yellow and its spinnerets, used to spin webs, are brown, the upper pair being darker than the lower pair. …

Stenaelurillus spiders are found across Africa and Asia. Stenaelurillus bandama is endemic to Ivory Coast. The holotype was identified based on a specimen collected near Korhogo on the Bandama River in 1980. It is known only from that local area. It has been found in areas of riparian forest and savanna.

Stenaelurillus bandama is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by the arachnologists Dmitri Logunov and Galina Azarkina in 2018. They placed the species in the genus Stenaelurillus, which had been first circumscribed by the natural scientist Eugène Simon in 1886. In 2015, the evolutionary biologist Wayne Maddison undertook a phylogenetic classification that showed that the genus is a member of the subtribe Aelurillina in the tribe Aelurillini. He listed the tribe in the clade Saltafresia. Two years later, in 2017, the arachnologist Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines. The genus name relates to the genus Aelurillus, which itself derives from the Greek word for 'cat', with the addition of a Greek stem meaning 'narrow'. The spider is named after the Bandama River, which runs near to the place the species was first found.