Biology:Peplometus
Peplometus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[1] When he first established the genus, Simon assigned Peplometus to the Balleae group alongside the related genus Pachyballus.[2] In their 2003 phylogenetic analysis, Wayne Maddison and Marshall Hedin noted that Pachyballus is closely related to Mantisatta, despite the large physiological differences between them, and the similarity of those spiders with a group of genera they termed Marpissoida but made no comment on Peplometus.[3]
In 2015, Maddison listed Peplometus within the tribe Ballini, derived from Simon's original name for the related genus Ballus, but attributed to an earlier author, Nathan Banks from 1892.[4] He allocated the tribe to the clade Marpissoida in the clade Salticoida.[5] It is likely that the ballines diverged from the wider Marpissoida clade between 20 and 25 million years ago, although Daniela Andriamalala estimated the family to be 3.99 million years old.[6] In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński added the genus to a group of genera termed Ballines, which contains many of the same genera, including Ballus and Pachyballus.[7]
Species
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes five species:[8]
- Peplometus biscutellatus (Simon, 1887) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon (type species)
- Peplometus chlorophthalmus Simon, 1900 – DR Congo, South Africa
- Peplometus congoensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Congo, DR Congo
- Peplometus nimba Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Guinea
- Peplometus oyo (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011) – Nigeria
References
Citations
- ↑ Simon 1900, p. 399.
- ↑ Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski 2020, p. 48.
- ↑ Maddison & Hedin 2003, p. 539.
- ↑ Maddison 2015, p. 244.
- ↑ Maddison 2015, p. 277.
- ↑ Bodner & Maddison 2016, p. 226.
- ↑ Prószyński 2017, p. 88.
- ↑ "Gen. Peplometus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2873. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
Bibliography
- Bodner, Melissa R.; Maddison, Wayne P. (2016). "The biogeography and age of salticid spider radiations (Araneae: Salticidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65 (1): 213–240. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.005. PMID 22735169.
- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292.
- Maddison, Wayne P.; Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". Invertebrate Systematics 17 (4): 529–549. doi:10.1071/IS02044.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
- Simon, Eugène (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae" (in FR). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381–407.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; Azarkina, Galina N.; Wiśniewski, Konrad (2020). "A revision of Peplometus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species". ZooKeys (944): 47–98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.944.49921. PMID 32684773. Bibcode: 2020ZooK..944...47W.
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