Pellenes

Pellenes
Male Pellenes wrighti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Pelleninae
Genus:	Pellenes Simon, 1876
Type species
Aranea tripunctata Walckenaer, 1802
Species
see text
Diversity
82 species

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

Most species have a special propensity for snail shells and are dark to black with white stripes on the back. Often there are bright red markings. Especially the male Pellenes seriatus and P. lapponicus frontally look very similar to Hasarius adansoni.

Species

• Pellenes aethiopicus Strand, 1906 — Ethiopia
• Pellenes albopilosus (Tyschchenko, 1965) — Russia, Kazakhstan
• Pellenes allegrii Caporiacco, 1935 — Central Asia, India
• Pellenes amazonka Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Central Asia
• Pellenes apacheus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 — USA
• Pellenes arciger (Walckenaer, 1837) — Southern Europe
• Pellenes badkhyzicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Turkmenistan
• Pellenes beani Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Pellenes bitaeniata (Keyserling, 1882) — Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales
• Pellenes bonus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Turkmenistan
• Pellenes borisi Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Kazakhstan
• Pellenes brevis (Simon, 1868) — Spain, France, Germany, Rhodes
• Pellenes bulawayoensis Wesolowska, 2000 — Zimbabwe
• Pellenes canosus Simon, 1937 — France
• Pellenes cinctipes (Banks, 1898) — Mexico
• Pellenes cingulatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Pellenes corticolens Chamberlin, 1924 — Mexico
• Pellenes crandalli Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 — USA
• Pellenes dahli Lessert, 1915 — Uganda
• Pellenes denisi Schenkel, 1963 — Tajikistan, China
• Pellenes diagonalis (Simon, 1868) — Corfu, Greece, Turkey, Israel
• Pellenes dilutus Logunov, 1995 — Central Asia
• Pellenes durieui (Lucas, 1846) — Algeria
• Pellenes dyali Roewer, 1951 — Pakistan
• Pellenes epularis (O. P-Cambridge, 1872) — Greece to China, Namibia
• Pellenes flavipalpis (Lucas, 1853) — Greece, Crete, Cyprus
• Pellenes frischi (Audouin, 1826) — Egypt
• Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868) — Southern Palearctic, Tanzania, introduced in Belgium
  • Pellenes geniculatus subsultans (Simon, 1868) — France
• Pellenes gerensis Hu, 2001 — China
• Pellenes gobiensis Schenkel, 1936 — Russia, Mongolia, China
• Pellenes grammaticus Chamberlin, 1925 — USA
• Pellenes hadaensis Prószynski, 1993 — Saudi Arabia
• Pellenes hedjazensis Prószynski, 1993 — Saudi Arabia
• Pellenes iforhasorum Berland & Millot, 1941 — Sudan, Mali
• Pellenes ignifrons (Grube, 1861) — USA, Canada, Russia, Mongolia
• Pellenes inexcultus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1873) — St. Helena
• Pellenes karakumensis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Turkmenistan
• Pellenes laevigatus (Simon, 1868) — Corfu, Lebanon
• Pellenes lagrecai Cantarella & Alicata, 2002 — Italy
• Pellenes lapponicus (Sundevall, 1833) — Palearctic
• Pellenes levaillanti (Lucas, 1846) — Algeria
• Pellenes levii Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 — USA
• Pellenes limatus Peckham & Peckham, 1901 — USA
• Pellenes limbatus Kulczynski, 1895 — Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia
• Pellenes logunovi Marusik, Hippa & Koponen, 1996 — Russia
• Pellenes longimanus Emerton, 1913 — USA
• Pellenes lucidus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 — Afghanistan
• Pellenes luculentus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
• Pellenes maderianus Kulczynski, 1905 — Madeira, Israel
• Pellenes marionis (Schmidt & Krause, 1994) — Cape Verde Islands
• Pellenes mimicus Strand, 1906 — Ethiopia
• Pellenes minimus (Caporiacco, 1933) — Libya
• Pellenes modicus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Pellenes montanus (Emerton, 1894) — USA, Canada
• Pellenes moreanus Metzner, 1999 — Greece
• Pellenes negevensis Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
• Pellenes nigrociliatus (Simon, 1875) — Palearctic
• Pellenes obliquostriatus Caporiacco, 1940 — Ethiopia
• Pellenes pamiricus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Tajikistan
• Pellenes peninsularis Emerton, 1925 — Canada
• Pellenes perexcultus Clark & Benoit, 1977 — St. Helena
• Pellenes pseudobrevis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Central Asia
• Pellenes pulcher Logunov, 1995 — Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
• Pellenes pulcher Wesolowska, 2000 — Zimbabwe
• Pellenes purcelli Lessert, 1915 — Uganda
• Pellenes rufoclypeatus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875) — Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Central Asia
• Pellenes shoshonensis Gertsch, 1934 — USA
• Pellenes sibiricus Logunov & Marusik, 1994 — Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
• Pellenes siculus Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 — Sicily
• Pellenes stepposus (Logunov, 1991) — Russia, Kazakhstan
• Pellenes striolatus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2002 — Socotra
• Pellenes sytchevskayae Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
• Pellenes tharinae Wesolowska, 2006 — Namibia
• Pellenes tocharistanus Andreeva, 1976 — Central Asia
• Pellenes tripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802) — Palearctic
• Pellenes turkmenicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 — Russia, Central Asia
• Pellenes unipunctus Saito, 1937 — China
• Pellenes univittatus (Caporiacco, 1939) — Ethiopia
• Pellenes vanharteni Wesolowska, 1998 — Cape Verde Islands
• Pellenes washonus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 — USA
• Pellenes wrighti Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 — USA

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Photograph of P. brevis
• Photograph of P. tripunctatus
• Photographs of P. seriatus, P. arciger, P. nigrociliatus and P. tripunctatus