Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Plexippoides  Prószyński, 1984   2 species

Plexippoides flavescens  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, eye field shining, almost black. Prosoma length: 2.4-2.8 mm. Chelicerae brown. Sternum medially yellow, laterally brownish. Legs yellowish or brownish, distal segments darker. Opisthosoma dark, brownish grey, dorsum with brown median stripe in anterior half, posterior edge with 2 small light spots.

Female

Prosoma length: 3.33-3.60 mm. Opisthosoma dorsally with yellow pattern consisting of a wide yellow median strak and light patches on sides.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Egypt, Sudan, Middle East, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. Introduced to Ukraine
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Logunov, 2021a) ||| Cyprus  Removed (Bosmans et al., 2019c; Logunov, 2021a) ||| Egypt   (Logunov, 2021a; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece  Removed (Logunov, 2021a) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Logunov, 2021a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Logunov, 2021a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Logunov D V (2021a) On three species of Plexippoides Prószyński, 1984 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Central Asia, with notes on a taxonomic validity of the genus. Arachnology 18: 766-777 pdf

Logunov D V, Zamanpoore M (2005) Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 217-232 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
01-05-2021 Datasheet update Detail
10-03-2021 Image insert
10-03-2021 Distribution update Detail
02-02-2017 Image insert
06-12-2016 Datasheet update Detail
06-12-2016 Distribution update Detail
25-04-2015 Distribution update Detail
27-05-2014 Datasheet update Detail
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