Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Plexippus  C. L. Koch, 1846   6 species

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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Morocco?
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.

Algeria   (Prószyński, 2003; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1928) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024; Coşar et al., 2014) |||
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 pdf

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 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yildiran F A B (2014) The jumping spiders' fauna of Kırıkkale Province (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 83-94 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

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 pdf

Logunov D V (2023a) On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19: 732-768 pdf

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-03-2023 Image insert
30-09-2020 Distribution update Detail
30-09-2020 Distribution insert Detail
27-11-2014 Image insert
27-11-2014 Distribution update Detail