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Genus: Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Plexippus rubroclypeatus (Lessert, 1927)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033582

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

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Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m 2f (ARTO-0027943) -

Taxonomic References

Habrocestum rubroclypeatum Lessert, 1927: 435, f. 19 (Dmf) Original description

Habrocestum rubroclypeatum Dyal, 1935: 229 (f)

Habrocestum dyali Roewer, 1955c: 1119 (superfluous and invalid replacement name for Dyal's record; Dyal refers to Lessert's species) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033559]

Habrocestum rubroclypeatum Prószyński, 1976: 155, f. 279 (m)

Habrocestum rubroclypeatum Prószyński, 2017c: 63 (nomen dubium [this means Dyal's record = Habrocestum dyali Roewer, 1955, see above])

Plexippus rubroclypeatus Prószyński, 2017c: 63, f. 4Q, 7P (mf, T from Habrocestum)

References

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017c). Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 13: 39-69. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.13.5 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2017-11-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017c
2017-11-10	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017c		Species transferred from Habrocestum to Plexippus