Plexippus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Plexippus.

Plexippus
female P. petersi
male P. paykulli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 [1]
Type species
P. paykulli (Audouin, 1826)
Species
40, see text
Synonyms [1]
Apamamia Roewer, 1944 [2] Hissarinus Charitonov, 1951 [3]

Plexippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. ^[4] It is considered a senior synonym of Hissarinus ^[3] and Apamamia. ^[2]

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. ^[5]

Distribution

Plexippus are found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands. ^[1]

• 
  male P. petersi
• 
  female P. paykulli
• 
  Plexippus setipes
• 
  female P. tsholotsho

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes forty species: ^[1]

• 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

References

1. "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-17.
2. Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique. 11: 12.
3. Andreeva, E. M. (1975). "Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan". Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 20: 339.
4. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. pp. 1–234.
5. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID   85680279.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Plexippus at iNaturalist

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