Plexippus (spider)

Plexippus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

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 — East Africa
• Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990 — Bhutan, China
• Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 — Yule Island
• Plexippus calcutaensis (Tikader, 1974) — India, Philippines
• Plexippus clemens (O. P-Cambridge, 1872) — Israel, Libya, Yemen
• Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 — Burma
• Plexippus devorans (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Greece to Central Asia
• Plexippus fannae (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) — Guatemala, Colombia
• Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
• Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 — Guinea
• Plexippus incognitus Dönitz & Strand, 1906 — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Plexippus insulanus Thorell, 1881 — Moluccas
• Plexippus kondarensis (Charitonov, 1951) — Central Asia
• Plexippus luteus Badcock, 1932 — Paraguay
• 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 — Burma
• Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) — Africa to Japan, Philippines, Hawai'i
• Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 — New South Wales
• Plexippus pokharae Zabka, 1990 — Nepal
• 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 tectonicus Prószyński, 2003 — Israel
• Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 — West Africa
• Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 — Bangladesh
• Plexippus yinae Peng & Li, 2003 — China
• Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 — Bangladesh

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Photograph of P. paykulli
• Photographs of Plexippus species
• Photograph of P. cf. paykulli
• Photograph of P. petersi

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
• Guppy, Crispin S.; Jon H. Shepard. Butterflies of British Columbia. UBC press. pp. 352–354. ISBN 0774808098. http://books.google.ca/books?id=E-reg6vdutcC&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=Aegytus+Danaus+in+Greek+mythology+(Bird+et+al.+1995)&source=web&ots=b1uTTzyKr_&sig=IjljN2OVO20JRKaPeVfICO15_fU&hl=en#PPA353,M1. Retrieved 2008-03-29.