Plexippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. It is considered a senior synonym of Hissarinus and Apamamia.
Taxonomy In Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Plexippus is placed in the tribe Plexippini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.
Distribution Plexippus are found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands.
Species , this genus includes forty species:
Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania Plexippus baro Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Guinea, Ethiopia Plexippus bhutani Żabka, 1990 – Bhutan, China Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.) Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Morocco? Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902 – Turkey ('Turcomania') Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Azerbaijan Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea Plexippus ignatius Caleb, 2022 – India Plexippus incognitus Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan Plexippus insulanus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas) Plexippus iranus Logunov, 2009 – Iran Plexippus kondarensis (Charitonov, 1951) – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan Plexippus lutescens Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates, India Plexippus niccensis Strand, 1906 – Japan Plexippus ochropsis Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) – Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, southern Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands (type species) Plexippus perfidus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) – Asia. Introduced to Africa, Pacific is. Mexico Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 – Australia (New South Wales) Plexippus pokharae Żabka, 1990 – Nepal Plexippus redimitus Simon, 1902 – India, Sri Lanka Plexippus robustus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania Plexippus rubroclypeatus (Lessert, 1927) – DR Congo Plexippus rubrogularis Simon, 1902 – South Africa Plexippus scleroepigynalis Logunov, 2023 – Iran Plexippus seladonicus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico Plexippus sengleti Logunov, 2021 – Afghanistan Plexippus setipes Karsch, 1879 – Turkmenistan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939 – Israel, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan? Greece? Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1898 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain) Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa Plexippus tsholotsho Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe, South Africa Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh
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Photograph of P. paykulli Photographs of Plexippus species Photograph of P. cf. paykulli Photograph of P. petersi