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Plexippus
Plexippus petersi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
P. paykulli (Audouin, 1826)
Species
42, see text
Synonyms
Apamamia Roewer, 1944 Hissarinus Charitonov, 1951

Plexippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. It is considered a senior synonym of Hissarinus and Apamamia.

Taxonomy

In Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Plexippus is placed in the tribe Plexippini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.

Species

As of June 2023 it contains forty-two species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:

• Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Plexippus baro Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
• Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan, China
• Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
• Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India, Iran?
• Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902 – Turkey ('Turcomania')
• Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
• Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
• Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 – Guinea
• Plexippus ignatius Caleb, 2022 – India
• Plexippus incognitus Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Plexippus insulanus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Plexippus iranus Logunov, 2009 – Iran
• Plexippus kondarensis (Charitonov, 1951) – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
• Plexippus lutescens Wesolowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe
• Plexippus minor Wesolowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
• Plexippus niccensis Strand, 1906 – Japan
• Plexippus ochropsis Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) (type) – Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Pacific Is.
  • Plexippus p. nigrescens (Berland, 1933) – French Polynesia (Marquesas Is.)
• Plexippus perfidus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) – Asia. Introduced to Africa and Pacific islands
• Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Plexippus pokharae Zabka, 1990 – Nepal
• Plexippus redimitus Simon, 1902 – India, Sri Lanka
• Plexippus robustus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania
• Plexippus rubroclypeatus (Lessert, 1927) – Congo
• Plexippus rubrogularis Simon, 1902 – South Africa
• Plexippus scleroepigynalis Logunov, 2023 – Iran
• Plexippus seladonicus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
• Plexippus sengleti Logunov, 2021 – Afghanistan
• Plexippus setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan
• Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939 – Israel, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan?, Greece? (inc. Plexippus dushanbinus Andreeva, 1969 and Plexippus gershomi Prószyński, 2017 per Logunov, 2023)
• Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
• Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa
• Plexippus tsholotsho Wesolowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh
• Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh

Gallery

• Plexippus paykulli on a leaf
• Plexippus paykulli on a white sheet
• Plexippus paykulli on a green sheet
• Plexippus paykulli on a camera lens
• Plexippus setipes

References

1. ^ "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
2. ^ Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique. 11: 12.
3. ^ Andreeva, E. M. (1975). "Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan". Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 20: 339.
4. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. pp. 1–234.
5. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.

External links

• Photograph of P. paykulli
• Photographs of Plexippus species
• Photograph of P. cf. paykulli
• Photograph of P. petersi

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