Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Plexippoides  Prószyński, 1984   2 species

Plexippoides gestroi  (Dalmas, 1920)

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally orange-brown with black border with white hairs, sides brown. Opisthosoma dorsally beige-brown spotted, with short brown longitudinal bands medially and laterally in anterior half. Palp: femur laterally with brown hair flag, tibia and cymbium with long, dense white hairs.

Body length male: 7.15 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, dorsally with dark brown margin. Opisthosoma dorsally black-brown with characteristic pattern of light beige spots.

Body length female: 7.6-9.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iraq, Iran
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   (Otto, 2022; Logunov, 2015) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c; Logunov, 2015) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024; Coşar & Varol, 2016) |||
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

Coşar İ, Varol M İ (2016) Six new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae) Turkish Journal of Entomology 40: 157-163 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

Deltshev C D, Paraschi L (1990) A contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae, Salticidae, Agelenidae) in Greece, with a description of a new species (Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, sp. n. Agelenidae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 17: 3-12 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 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

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 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
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