Plexippus (spider)

Plexippus
Plexippus setipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Plexippinae
Genus: Plexippus
Type species
Attus paykullii
Audouin, 1826
Species

see text

Diversity
41 species

Plexippus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), described by Audouin in 1826.[1]

Name

In Greek mythology, Plexippus participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

Species

  • Plexippus andamanensis (Tikader, 1977) – Andaman Islands
  • Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
  • Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Plexippus baro Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
  • Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan, China
  • Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 – Yule Islands
  • Plexippus calcutaensis (Tikader, 1974) – India, Philippines
  • Plexippus clemens (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Libya, Israel, Yemen, Iran
  • Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
  • Plexippus devorans (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece to Central Asia
  • Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
  • Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea
  • Plexippus gajbei Karthikeyani & Kannan, 2013 – India
  • Plexippus incognitus Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
  • Plexippus insulanus Thorell, 1881 – Moluccas
  • Plexippus iranus Logunov, 2009 – Iran
  • Plexippus kondarensis (Charitonov, 1951) – Central Asia
  • Plexippus lutescens Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe
  • Plexippus luteus Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
  • Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
  • Plexippus niccensis Strand, 1906 – Japan
  • Plexippus ochropsis Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
  • Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) – Cosmopolitan
    • Plexippus paykulli nigrescens (Berland, 1933) – Marquesas Islands
  • Plexippus perfidus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
  • Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) – Africa to Japan, Philippines, Hawaii
  • Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 – New South Wales
  • Plexippus pokharae Zabka, 1990 – Nepal
  • Plexippus pseudopaykuhlii Sen et al., 2015 – India
  • Plexippus redimitus Simon, 1902 – India, Sri Lanka
  • Plexippus robustus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – East Africa
  • Plexippus rubrogularis Simon, 1902 – South Africa
  • Plexippus seladonicus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
  • Plexippus setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan
  • Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1899 – New Britain
  • Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
  • Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa
  • Plexippus tsholotsho Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe
  • Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh
  • Plexippus yinae Peng & Li, 2003 – China
  • Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh

References

  1. ↑ "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007). "The world spider catalog". Peter Merrett and H. Don Cameron (editors). American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  • Guppy, Crispin S.; Shepard, Jon H. (2001). Butterflies of British Columbia. UBC press. pp. 352–354. ISBN 0-7748-0809-8. Retrieved 2008-03-29.


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