World Spider Catalog

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

Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043299

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Described:

Distribution: United Arab Emirates, India

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 2m (ARA 228611-228612) - (Tripathi et al., 2022)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (ARA 228610) - (Tripathi et al., 2022)

Taxonomic References

Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010: 49, pl. 19, f. 57-58 (Dm) Original description

Plexippus minor Prószyński, 2017c: 61, f. 2N, 4D1 (m)

Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2020: 610, f. 10-11, 15-16 (Df)

Plexippus minor Tripathi et al., 2022: 67, f. 1-28 (mf)

References

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

Tripathi, R., Henrard, A., Jangid, A. K., Dutta, S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). First documentation of Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arachnology 19(1): 66-71. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.1.66 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2010). Order Araneae, family Salticidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 3: 27-69. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2020). Notes on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Abu Dhabi Emirate. Arachnology 18(6): 607-611. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.607 -- 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
2022-03-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Tripathi et al., 2022
2022-03-15	Species distribution update	Tripathi et al., 2022	Old value
2020-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & van Harten, 2020
2020-11-02	First description of female	Wesołowska & van Harten, 2020	Old value
2017-11-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017c