Pellenes geniculatus

Pellenes geniculatus is a jumping spider species in the genus Pellenes.

Pellenes geniculatus
Pellenes geniculatus in Octon, Hérault, France in 2017
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Pellenes
Species:
P. geniculatus
Binomial name
Pellenes geniculatus
(Simon, 1868)

Taxonomy

Originally allocated to the genus Attus, the species was first identified by Eugène Simon in 1868 but was given its current name in 1876.[1]

Description

Pellenes geniculatus is a small spider. The female is larger at between 4.2 and 5 mm (0.17 and 0.20 in) long, compared to the male that is between 3.35 and 3.7 mm (0.132 and 0.146 in) long.[2] The spider has a carapace 1.75 mm (0.069 in) long. The male has an abdomen of a similar length that is brown with either a longitudinal white stripe or cross-link colour markings while the female has a larger abdomen, 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long, which is brownish yellow.[3] There is some variation between specimens, particularly between those in Southern Africa and those found in Europe and Asia.[4]

Distribution

The species has been found in an area that stretches across Southern Europe, Africa and Central Asia.[1] The furthest east that it has been identified is Mongolia and the furthest south is southern Africa.[5]

Synonyms

Simon first named that species Attus geniculatus. According to the World Spider Catalog in March 2017, the species has also been described by the following species names:[1]

  • Salticus simonii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
  • Attus gemellus Simon, 1873
  • Pellenes gemellus Simon, 1876
  • Pellenes simoni Simon, 1876
  • Pellenes kraepelinorum Bösenberg, 1895
  • Pellenes kulabicus Andreeva, 1976
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References
  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  2. Nentwig, W; Blick, T; Gloor, D; Hänggi, A; Kropf, C (2018). "Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868)". Spiders of Europe. UNIBE. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. Logunov, D.V. (1999). "A review of the genus Pellenes in the fauna of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Araneae, Salticidae)" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 33 (1): 128–129. doi:10.1080/002229399300489. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. Wesołowska, W.; Haddad, C. R. (2014). "An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 55 (2): 255–257. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  5. Fomichev, A.A. (2016). "New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from south-western Mongolia". Ukrainian Journal of Ecology. 6 (2): 104. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
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