Plexippus (spider)

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.

Distribution

Plexippus are found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands.

Species

, this genus includes forty species:

• Plexippus aper <small>Thorell, 1881</small> – New Guinea
• Plexippus auberti <small>Lessert, 1925</small> – Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
• Plexippus baro <small>Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008</small> – Guinea, Ethiopia
• Plexippus bhutani <small>Å»abka, 1990</small> – Bhutan, China
• Plexippus brachypus <small>Thorell, 1881</small> – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
• Plexippus clemens <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Morocco?
• Plexippus coccinatus <small>Thorell, 1895</small> – Myanmar
• Plexippus coccineus <small>Simon, 1902</small> – Turkey ('Turcomania')
• Plexippus devorans <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Azerbaijan
• Plexippus frendens <small>Thorell, 1881</small> – New Guinea
• Plexippus fuscus <small>Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002</small> – Guinea
• Plexippus ignatius <small>Caleb, 2022</small> – India
• Plexippus incognitus <small>Dönitz & Strand, 1906</small> – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Plexippus insulanus <small>Thorell, 1881</small> – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Plexippus iranus <small>, 2009</small> – Iran
• Plexippus kondarensis <small>(Charitonov, 1951)</small> – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
• Plexippus lutescens <small>Wesołowska, 2011</small> – Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
• Plexippus minor <small>Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010</small> – United Arab Emirates, India
• Plexippus niccensis <small>Strand, 1906</small> – Japan
• Plexippus ochropsis <small>Thorell, 1881</small> – New Guinea
• Plexippus paykulli <small>(Audouin, 1826)</small> – Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, southern Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands (type species)
• Plexippus perfidus <small>Thorell, 1895</small> – Myanmar
• Plexippus petersi <small>(Karsch, 1878)</small> – Asia. Introduced to Africa, Pacific is. Mexico
• Plexippus phyllus <small>Karsch, 1878</small> – Australia (New South Wales)
• Plexippus pokharae <small>Å»abka, 1990</small> – Nepal
• Plexippus redimitus <small>Simon, 1902</small> – India, Sri Lanka
• Plexippus robustus <small>( & , 1895)</small> – Tanzania
• Plexippus rubroclypeatus <small>(Lessert, 1927)</small> – DR Congo
• Plexippus rubrogularis <small>Simon, 1902</small> – South Africa
• Plexippus scleroepigynalis <small>Logunov, 2023</small> – Iran
• Plexippus seladonicus <small>C. L. Koch, 1846</small> – Mexico
• Plexippus sengleti <small>Logunov, 2021</small> – Afghanistan
• Plexippus setipes <small>Karsch, 1879</small> – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan
• Plexippus strandi <small>Spassky, 1939</small> – Israel, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan? Greece?
• Plexippus stridulator <small>Pocock, 1898</small> – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Plexippus taeniatus <small>C. L. Koch, 1846</small> – Mexico
• Plexippus tortilis <small>Simon, 1902</small> – West Africa
• Plexippus tsholotsho <small>Wesołowska, 2011</small> – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Plexippus wesolowskae <small>Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998</small> – Bangladesh
• Plexippus zabkai <small>Biswas, 1999</small> – Bangladesh

References

External links

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