Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Plexippoides  Prószyński, 1984   2 species

Plexippoides flavescens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma dunkelbraun, Augenfeld glänzend, fast schwarz. Prosomalänge: 2.4-2.8 mm. Cheliceren braun. Sternum in der Mitte gelb, aussen bräunlich. Beine gelblich oder bräunlich, distale Bereiche der Segmente dunkler. Opisthosoma dunkel, bräunlich-grau, dorsal in der vorderen Hälfte mit braunem Mittelstreifen, am hinteren Rand mit zwei kleinen hellen Punkten, ventral gelblich.

Weibchen

Prosomalänge: 3.33 -3.60 mm. Opisthosoma dorsal mit gelbem Muster aus breitem gelben Mittelstreifen und hellen Flecken an der Seite.

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  nicht etabliert
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Egypt, Sudan, Middle East, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. Introduced to Ukraine, USA
Phänologie
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 male  female
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
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) |||
Literatur

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

Camilleri C (2025) From the Middle East to the Mojave: on the introduction of Plexippoides flavescens (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina) to North America. Peckhamia 346.1: 1-5 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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