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| male P. paykulli | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Plexippus C. L. Koch, 18461 |
| Type species | |
| P. paykulli (Audouin, 1826)
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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 Hissarinus3 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
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male P. petersi -
female P. paykulli -
Plexippus setipes -
female P. tsholotsho
Species
As of October 2025, 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
References
- "Gen. Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
- Ledoux, J.-C.; Hallé, N. (1995). "Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie)". Revue Arachnologique. 11: 12.
- Andreeva, E. M. (1975). "Distribution and ecology of spiders (Aranei) in Tadjikistan". Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 20: 339.
- Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band. pp. 1–234.
- 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.