Species Plexippus petersii (Karsch, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euophrys petersii Karsch, F. 1878. Uebersicht der von ihm in Mossambique gesammelten Arachniden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 314-338 [332].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Bonnet, P. 1958. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(4) 3027-4230 pp. [3720].
• Marpissa calcutaensis Tikader, B.K. 1974. Studies on some jumping spiders of the genus Marpissa from India (family-Salticidae). Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences 79(B): 204-215 [210].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Caleb, J.T.D., Francis, C., Bhat, V.K.& Packiam, S.M. 2022. A new species and two new synonyms in the genus Plexippus C.L. Koch, 1846 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina). Arthropoda Selecta 31: 312-318 [315]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmotropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, peridomestic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Synanthropic.

 

General References

Ahmed, J., Mohan, K., Khalap R. & Hill, D.E. 2015. Araneophagic behaviour in Plexippus petersi (Karsch 1878) (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippoida: Plexippinae). Peckhamia 132(1): 1-4

Berry, J.W., Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski, J. 1997. Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. II. Distribution of nine genera, with description of eleven new species. Journal of Arachnology 25: 109-136 [130]

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. 1999. Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235 [232]

Zabka, M. & Gardzinska, J. 2017. Salticidae of Thailand. Part 1, Genera Pleippus C.L. Koch, 1846 and Burmattus Proszynsli, 1992. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 67: 229-242 [232, Figs 3, 4] (good plates)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	05-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	04-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020		20-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		18-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		23-Aug-2010	MODIFIED