# Plexippus (spider)

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.

### Species

As of June 2023 it contains forty-two species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:
* Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
* Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania
* Plexippus baro Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
* Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan, China
* Plexippus brachypus Thorell, 1881 – Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.)
* Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India, Iran?
* Plexippus coccinatus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
* Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902 – Turkey ('Turcomania')
* Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
* Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
* Plexippus frendens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
* Plexippus fuscus Rollard & Wesolowska, 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 Wesolowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe
* Plexippus minor Wesolowska & van Harten, 2010 – United Arab Emirates
* Plexippus niccensis Strand, 1906 – Japan
* Plexippus ochropsis Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
* Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) (type) – Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Pacific Is.
** Plexippus p. nigrescens (Berland, 1933) – French Polynesia (Marquesas Is.)
* Plexippus perfidus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
* Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878) – Asia. Introduced to Africa and Pacific islands
* Plexippus phyllus Karsch, 1878 – Australia (New South Wales)
* Plexippus pokharae Zabka, 1990 – Nepal
* Plexippus redimitus Simon, 1902 – India, Sri Lanka
* Plexippus robustus (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania
* Plexippus rubroclypeatus (Lessert, 1927) – 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, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan?, Greece? (inc. Plexippus dushanbinus Andreeva, 1969 and Plexippus gershomi Prószyński, 2017 per Logunov, 2023)
* Plexippus stridulator Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
* Plexippus taeniatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
* Plexippus tortilis Simon, 1902 – West Africa
* Plexippus tsholotsho Wesolowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
* Plexippus wesolowskae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 1998 – Bangladesh
* Plexippus zabkai Biswas, 1999 – Bangladesh

## Gallery

* Plexippus paykulli on a leaf
* Plexippus paykulli on a white sheet
* Plexippus paykulli on a green sheet
* Plexippus paykulli on a camera lens
* Plexippus setipes