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Plexippus devorans

Plexippus devorans is a jumping spider that has a distribution that stretches from Greece to Central Asia and also includes Algeria. Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872, the species was transferred into the genus Hasarius by Eugène Simon in 1876, into Menemerus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984, and eventually into Plexippus by Prószyński in 2003.

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Plexippus devorans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Plexippus
Species:
P. devorans
Binomial name
Plexippus devorans

Plexippus devorans is a jumping spider that has a distribution that stretches from Greece to Central Asia and also includes Algeria.1 Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872,2 the species was transferred into the genus Hasarius by Eugène Simon in 1876, into Menemerus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984, and eventually into Plexippus by Prószyński in 2003.1

Synonyms

Synonyms for the species include:1

  • Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902
  • Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939
References

References

  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.