Plexippus (spider)
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| Plexippus petersi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. paykulli (Audouin, 1826)
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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]
Taxonomy
[edit]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.[5]
Species
[edit]As of June 2023[update] it contains forty-two species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]
- 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
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Plexippus setipes
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ^ a b Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique. 11: 12.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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
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- Photograph of P. paykulli
- Photographs of Plexippus species
- Photograph of P. cf. paykulli
- Photograph of P. petersi
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