Plexippus paykulli
Creators: name: Sherwood, Danniella
name: Sharp, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Plexippus
Plexippus paykulli

description: Plexippus paykulli (Audouin 1826)   
 Attus paykullii Audouin 1826: 409, pl. 7, fig. 22 (J).   
For full taxonomic synonymy list, see WSC 2023.  
 Material examined. 1 ♀ (ASC BBISL OPP1), Boatswain Bird Island, 2016, coll. L. F. White; 1 ♀ (ASC BBISL OPP1), Boatswain Bird Island, 2016, coll. L. F. White; 1 J (ASC H14 1 HPF), Ascension Island, -7.918706, -14.357854, 161 m, 27/01/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 1 imm. (ASC G16 3 HC), Ascension Island, -7.941495, -14.368996, 246 m, 08/03/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 1 imm. (ASC E15 3 HC), Ascension Island, -7.928866, -14.387608, 119 m, 07/01/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 1 ♀ (ASC G16 1 PFF), Ascension Island, - 7.936308, -14.373035, 186 m, 11/03/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 1 imm. (ASC F17 2 HC), Ascension Island, -7.94918, -14.376301, 169 m, 28/02/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 1 ♀ (ASC L CREV PF), Comfortless Crevices, 2023, coll. A. Sharp; 1 imm. (ASC, number illegible), Ascension Island [no other data]; 2 imm. (ASC RS EPS NAT), Ascension Island, -7.95077, -14.34472, 808 m, 25/04/2023, coll. A. Sharp; 2 imm. (ASC WR EPS NAT), Ascension Island, -7.95208, -14.34007, 758 m, 25/04/2023, coll. A. Sharp; 2 ♀♀, 2 imm. (ASC 1160), Boatswain Bird Island 27/05/1995, hand collected, coll. and colln. P. Ashmole and M. Ashmole; 1 imm. (ASC 1173), Boatswain Bird Island, 26–27/05/1995, coll. and colln. P. Ashmole and M. Ashmole; 3 JJ, 3 imm. J, 1 imm. ♀, 1 imm. (ASC 1181), Boatswain Bird Island, 26–27/05/1995, coll. and colln. P. Ashmole and M. Ashmole; 1 J (ASC 00376), Ascension Island, -7.912300761, -14.40160336, 04/07/12, coll. L. F. White; 1 ♀ (ASC NW500), Ascension Island, -7.922906985, -14.3392617, 28/02/13, coll. L. F. White; 1 imm. (ASC 00286), Ascension Island, -7.912300761, -14.40160336, 14/06/12, coll. L. F. White; 1 imm. (ASC G16 2 PFM), Ascension Island, -7.96276, -14.384734, 104 m, 15/02/2022, coll. A. Sharp; 3 JJ, 1 ♀ (BMNH), Ascension Island, 12–31/09/1957, coll. E. A. Duffey, tube 31; 1 J, 1 ♀ (BMNH), [same data, except tube 127]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 7]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 3015]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 90]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 122]; 1 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 83]; 1 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 43]; 1 ♀, 1 imm. ♀, 2 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 81]; 1 ♀, 1 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 20]; 1 imm. J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 110]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 66]; 7 ♀, 2 imm. ♀, 6 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 85]; 1 ♀ (BMNH), [same data, except tube 123]; 1 ♀ (BMNH), [same data, except tube 77]; 3 JJ, 6 ♀ (BMNH), [same data, except tube 65]; 1 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 117]; 1 imm. J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 6]; 1 J (BMNH), [same data, except tube 116]; 1 ♀ (BMNH), [same data, except tube 80]; 1 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 12]; 4 imm. (BMNH), [same data, except tube 52].   
 Distribution. Described by Audouin (1826) from Egypt, probably indigenous to the Middle East and Northern Africa. Introduced worldwide (WSC 2023), often found in sympatry with H. adansoni (see above).   
 Remarks. A very common and widespread species. Duffey (1964: 241) reports P. paykulli from Boatswain Bird Island, where he found it to be abundant. He also found it throughout the mainland. These observations are in keeping with recently collected material, showing the distribution of this species has apparently not radically changed since.
description: Published as part of Sherwood, Danniella & Sharp, Adam, 2023, A Caribbean in the South Atlantic: first records of Hentzia antillana Bryant 1940, with notes on other previously reported jumping spider species (Araneae: Salticidae), from Ascension Island, pp. 1-7 in Peckhamia 310 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10943084