Plexippus (spider)
| Plexippus | |
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| 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 | |
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| Diversity | |
| 35 species | |
Plexippus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), described by Audouin in 1826.
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, Hawaii
- 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". 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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plexippus. |
- Photograph of P. paykulli
- Photographs of Plexippus species
- Photograph of P. cf. paykulli
- Photograph of P. petersi
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