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 2026): Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Morocco?
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Prószyński, 2003; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1928; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; 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 (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], 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

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 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
14-03-2023 Image insert
30-09-2020 Distribution update Detail
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27-11-2014 Image insert
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