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

Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939

Description
Female

Prosoma light yellow, densely covered with white hairs, eyes surrounded with black. Sternum light yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum light yellow, with 2 parallel longitudinal bands consisting of 3 black spots, covered with orange hairs.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: See Prószyński (2017b)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Israel, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan?, Greece?
Figures
Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Metzner, 1999; Prószyński, 2017b) |||
References

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

Prószyński J (2017b) Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 13: 39-69 pdf

Wesołowska W (1996) New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53 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
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
14-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
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11-11-2017 Datasheet update Detail