Plexippoides flavescens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035643

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt, Sudan, Middle East, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan. Introduced to Ukraine, USA


Type Repository Provide information
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) 1f (fragment, 9911520-141) of Evarcha afghana -
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Plexippoides arabicus Prószyński, 1989, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02388 a) -
  • Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Plexippoides arabicus Prószyński, 1989, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02388 b) -
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2f (bottle 1739, tube 52, iv) - (Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005)
  • Paralectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (39743-141) of Yllenus starmuehlneri - (Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005)
  • Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden f of Evarcha afghana - (Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005)
  • Lectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (39743-141) of Yllenus starmuehlneri - (Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) Menemerops sollistimus Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 (201308) -
Taxonomic References
Salticus flavescens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 343 (Df) Original description
Menemerus flavescens Simon, 1876a: 34
Yllenus starmühlneri Roewer, 1955a: 780, f. 28-29 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035648]
Evarcha afghana Roewer, 1962a: 26, f. 109 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035636]
Plexippoides starmuehlneri Prószyński, 1976: 156, f. 294, 427-431 (mf, generic nomen nudum)
Yllenus starmuehlneri Brignoli, 1983c: 658
Evarcha afghana Prószyński, 1984a: 47 (f)
Menemerus flavescens Prószyński, 1984a: 86 (f)
Plexippoides starmuehlneri Prószyński, 1984b: 400, f. 5-8 (mf, T from Yllenus)
Plexippoides arabicus Prószyński, 1989a: 47, f. 44-45 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062079]
Menemerops flavescens Prószyński, 1992a: 99, f. 44-45 (f, T from Menemerus)
Menemerops afghanus Prószyński, 1992a: 99 (T from Evarcha)
Menemerops sollistimus Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 45, f. 97-98 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062081]
Plexippoides flavescens Wesołowska, 1996: 34, f. 24A-D (mf, S of Menemerops sollistimus and Plexippoides arabicus [rejected by Prószyński, 2003: 138 and confirmed by Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005: 225])
Plexippoides flavescens Prószyński, 2003: 139, f. 567-568 (f)
Plexippoides arabicus Prószyński, 2003: 138, f. 564-565, 569-572 (m, Df, removed from S of Plexippoides flavescens [incl. P. sollistimus], rejecting Wesołowska, 1996: 34; S confirmed by Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005: 225)
Plexippoides afghanus Prószyński, 2003: 141, f. 576 (f)
Plexippoides flavescens Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005: 225, f. 26-31 (mf, S of Plexippoides afghanus and P. starmuehlneri, S of P. arabicus and P. sollistimus confirmed)
Plexippoides flavescens Siyam, Dunlop & El-Hennawy, 2015: 271, f. 31-33 (m)
Plexippoides flavescens Logunov, 2021a: 766, f. 1-8, 17-22, 33-36 (mf)
Plexippoides flavescens Camilleri, 2025: 2, f. 1-6 (mf)
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa

Camilleri, C. (2025). From the Middle East to the Mojave: on the introduction of Plexippoides flavescens (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina) to North America. Peckhamia 346.1: 1-5. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Zamanpoore, M. (2005). Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(6): 217-232. -- Show included taxa

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(7): 766-777. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.766 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- 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. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984b). Remarks on Anarrhotus, Epeus and Plexippoides (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 399-410. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1989a). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 31-64. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1992a). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Old World and Pacific Islands in several US collections. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 44: 87-163. -- Show included taxa

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

Roewer, C. F. (1955a). Die Araneen der Österreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949/50. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (I) 164: 751-782. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1962a). Araneae Dionycha aus Afghanistan II. Acta Universitatis Lundensis (N.F.) (2) 58(4): 1-34. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2015). New spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 16(7): 264-272. doi: 10.13156/arac.2015.16.7.264 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1996). New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53. -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2025-11-18 New taxonomic reference entry Camilleri, 2025
2025-11-18 Species distribution update Camilleri, 2025 Old value
2022-07-11 Species distribution update Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022 Old value
2021-03-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Plexippoides gestroi (Dalmas, 1920)
2021-03-10 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov, 2021a
2021-03-10 Species distribution update Logunov, 2021a Old value
2021-03-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Logunov, 2021a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Plexippoides insperatus Logunov, 2021
2016-09-22 New taxonomic reference entry Coşar & Varol, 2016
2015-04-27 New taxonomic reference entry Siyam, Dunlop & El-Hennawy, 2015
2015-04-27 Species distribution update Siyam, Dunlop & El-Hennawy, 2015 Old value
2015-04-14 New taxonomic reference entry Bauer, Freudenschuss & Grabolle, 2015
2015-04-14 Species distribution update Bauer, Freudenschuss & Grabolle, 2015 Old value

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