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

Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035655

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Described:

Distribution: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 3f (ARTO-0027930) - (Lessert, 1925a)
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1f - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925a: 503, f. 85-86 (Df) Original description

Plexippus auberti Prószyński, 1984a: 152 (f)

Plexippus auberti Wesołowska, 2012a: 213, f. 41-46 (Dm, f)

Plexippus auberti Prószyński, 2017c: 53, f. 4J, 6B-B1 (mf)

References

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- 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. (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

Wesołowska, W. (2012a). Redescriptions of some jumping spiders described by R. Lessert from Central Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 23(2): 201-221. -- 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
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2017-11-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017c