Plexippus clemens

Plexippus clemens is a species of jumping spiders that lives in Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Libya, Turkey and Yemen.[1] Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872, the species was transferred into the genus Euophrys by Eugène Simon in 1876, into Menemerus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984 and eventually into Plexippus by Prószyński in 2003.[1]

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

Synonyms

Synonyms for the species include:[1]

  • Plexippus bhutani Zabka, 1990
  • Plexippus similis Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994
  • Plexippus tectonicus Prószyński, 2003
  • Plexippus yinae Peng & Li, 2003

References

  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.


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