Plexippus devorans
Plexippus devorans is a jumping spider that has a distribution that stretches from Greece to Central Asia and also includes Algeria.[1] Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872,[2] the species was transferred into the genus Hasarius by Eugène Simon in 1876, into Menemerus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984 and eventually into Plexippus by Prószyński in 2003.[1]
| Plexippus devorans | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Plexippus |
| Species: | P. devorans |
| Binomial name | |
| Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | |
Synonyms
Synonyms for the species include:[1]
- Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902
- Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939
gollark: "Oh look let's just stick in this convenient FUTURE thing so our captain has coffee"
gollark: They never do consider the consequences of replicators, really.
gollark: I mean, it's onboard a military spaceship. They could just be getting imports of stuff they need.
gollark: How do you know *that*?
gollark: Er, no scarcity for any goods.
References
- World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.