Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Description
Male
Prosoma yellow, eye field fawn with 2 white patches, vincity of eyes dark brown. thoracic part with 2 large brown patches. Prosoma length: 2.5-2.7 mm. Chelicerae brown. Sternum yellow. Leg I brown, dorsally lighter. Leg II yellow, retrolateral part with brown streaks on patella and tibia, femur ventrally brownish. Legs III and IV yellow, pro- and retrolateral sides with brownish streaks, reaching from distal part of femur to metatarsus. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a thin yellow median line and two wide brown lateral lines, sides yellow, venter light with 2 brown lateral longitudinal stripes.
Female
Prosoma with brown eye field, eyes surrounded with black. Prosoma length: 3.0 mm. Chelicerae light brown. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellow with brown hairs. Opisthosoma brownish, dorsum with a broad yellow median stripe and 2 pairs of light longitudinal marks in posterior half, venter light.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 2010b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov 2010b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov 2010b)
Epigyne
(Logunov 2023a)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov 2010b)
Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Logunov 2010b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2010b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2023a)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Caporiacco L di (1928) Resultati zoologici della Missione inviata dalla R. Società Geografica Italiana per l'esplorazione dell'oasi di Giarabub (1926-1927). Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 53: 77-107
Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yildiran F A B (2014) The jumping spiders' fauna of Kırıkkale Province (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 83-94
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Logunov D V (2010b) Taxonomic notes on a collection of jumping spiders from Iran (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 85-90
Logunov D V (2023a) On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19: 732-768
Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2