Biology:Plexippus devorans

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Short description: Species of spider

Plexippus devorans
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Plexippus
Species:
P. devorans
Binomial name
Plexippus devorans
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

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]

Synonyms

Synonyms for the species include:[1]

  • Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902
  • Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". Natural History Museum. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/32076. Retrieved 8 April 2017. 
  2. 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/67338. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1963589 entry