Biology:Plexippus (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Plexippus
Plexippus petersi (jumping spider) on a human finger at golden hour.jpg
Plexippus petersi
Scientific classification e
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)
Species

42, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Apamamia Roewer, 1944[2]
  • Hissarinus Charitonov, 1951[3]

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

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

(As of June 2023) 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 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 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 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 setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan
  • 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 tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa
  • Plexippus tsholotsho Wesolowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh
  • Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2896. Retrieved 2023-06-12. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique 11: 12. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Andreeva, E. M. (1975). "Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan". Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw 20: 339. 
  4. ↑ Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. pp. 1–234. 
  5. ↑ 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 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1578433 entry




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