Plexippus devorans

Plexippus devorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Salticidae
Genus:Plexippus
Species: P. devorans
Binomial name
Plexippus devorans

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 2 3 World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. 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.


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