''Plexippoides'' is a

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jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

that was first described by

Jerzy Prószyński Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...

in 1984. The name means "having the likeness of ''

Plexippus In Greek mythology, Plexippus or Plexippos (Ancient Greek: Πλήξιππος means "striking") is a name that refers to: * Plexippus, a Pleuronian prince as the son of King Thestius of Pleuron and Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea. He was the br ...

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Species

it contains twenty-six species, found in eastern Asia, though some are recorded from Africa and south-eastern Europe: *'' Plexippoides annulipedis'' (Saito, 1939) –

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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*'' Plexippoides arkit'' Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Central Asia *'' Plexippoides biprocessiger'' (Lessert, 1927) –

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*'' Plexippoides cornutus'' Xie & Peng, 1993 – China *'' Plexippoides digitatus'' Peng & Li, 2002 – China *'' Plexippoides dilucidus'' Próchniewicz, 1990 –

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

*'' Plexippoides discifer'' (Schenkel, 1953) – China *'' Plexippoides doenitzi'' ( Karsch, 1879) – China, Korea, Japan *'' Plexippoides flavescens'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (

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Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

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. Introduced to

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*'' Plexippoides gestroi'' (Dalmas, 1920) – Greece,

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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

, Iran *'' Plexippoides guangxi'' (Peng & Li, 2002) – China *'' Plexippoides insperatus'' Logunov, 2021 – Iran, Pakistan *'' Plexippoides jinlini'' Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 – China *'' Plexippoides longapophysis'' Wang, Mi & Peng, 2020 – China *'' Plexippoides longus'' Zhu, Zhang, Zhang & Chen, 2005 – China *'' Plexippoides meniscatus'' Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 – China *'' Plexippoides nishitakensis'' ( Strand, 1907) – Japan *'' Plexippoides potanini'' Prószyński, 1984 – China *'' Plexippoides regius'' Wesolowska, 1981 –

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, China, Korea *'' Plexippoides regiusoides'' Peng & Li, 2008 – China *'' Plexippoides subtristis'' Wang, Mi & Peng, 2020 – China *'' Plexippoides szechuanensis'' Logunov, 1993 – China *'' Plexippoides tangi'' Wang, Mi & Peng, 2020 – China *'' Plexippoides tristis'' Próchniewicz, 1990 –

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

*'' Plexippoides validus'' Xie & Yin, 1991 – China *'' Plexippoides zhangi'' Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998 – China

References

External links

Photograph of ''P. gestroi''
Spiders of Europe Salticidae Salticidae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Jumping-spider-stub