Plexippus (spider)

Plexippus
Plexippus setipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Plexippinae
Genus:	Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846
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

• 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. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plexippus.

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