Plexippus (spider)
Plexippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[4] It is considered a senior synonym of Hissarinus[3] and Apamamia.[2]
Plexippus | |
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Plexippus petersi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Genus: | Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846[1] |
Type species | |
P. paykulli (Audouin, 1826) | |
Species | |
45, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
As of August 2019 it contains forty-five species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, Mexico, Paraguay, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]
- Plexippus andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is.)
- 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 calcutaensis (Tikader, 1974) – India, Philippines
- 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 dushanbinus Andreeva, 1969 – Tajikistan
- Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
- Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
- Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 – Guinea
- Plexippus gershomi Prószyński, 2017 – Israel
- 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 luteus Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
- 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 seladonicus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
- Plexippus setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan
- Plexippus similis Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Yemen
- Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939 – Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan?, Greece?
- Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
- Plexippus tectonicus Prószyński, 2003 – Israel, China
- 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
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References
- "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique. 11: 12.
- Andreeva, E. M. (1975). "Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan". Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 20: 339.
- Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. pp. 1–234.
External links
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Further reading
- Guppy, Crispin S.; Shepard, Jon H. (2001). Butterflies of British Columbia. UBC press. pp. 352–354. ISBN 0-7748-0809-8. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
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