Plexippus fibulatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Plexippus
- Species
- Plexippus fibulatus
- Scientific Name
- Plexippus fibulatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Plexippus fibulatus
Plexippus fibulatus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Plexippus that lives in Kenya. It was first described in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska. Only the male has been described. In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński suggested that it should be reclassified in its own genus as it does not resemble other Plexippus spiders but this has not been carried out. It is a medium-sized spider, with a cephalothorax between 2.9 and 3.3 mm (0.11 and 0.13 in) long and an abdomen between 2.9 and 3.3 mm (0.11 and 0.13 in) long. The dark brown carapace is marked with streaks made of white hairs and the brown abdomen has a pattern consisting of a white streak and chevrons. The spider has a short fleshy embolus and a spike-like tibial apophysis, after which is named, that is set perpendicular to the tibia.
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Sibling Taxa
- Plexippus aper
- Plexippus auberti
- Plexippus baro
- Plexippus bhutani
- Plexippus brachypus
- Plexippus clemens
- Plexippus coccinatus
- Plexippus coccineus
- Plexippus devorans
- Plexippus dushanbinus
- Plexippus fibulatus
- Plexippus frendens
- Plexippus fuscus
- Plexippus gershomi
- Plexippus ignatius
- Plexippus incognitus
- Plexippus insulanus
- Plexippus iranus
- Plexippus kondarensis
- Plexippus lutescens
- Plexippus luteus
- Plexippus minor
- Plexippus niccensis
- Plexippus ochropsis
- Plexippus paykulli
- Plexippus perfidus
- Plexippus petersi
- Plexippus phyllus
- Plexippus pokharae
- Plexippus redimitus
- Plexippus robustus
- Plexippus rubroclypeatus
- Plexippus rubrogularis
- Plexippus seladonicus
- Plexippus setipes
- Plexippus strandi
- Plexippus stridulator
- Plexippus taeniatus
- Plexippus tortilis
- Plexippus tsholotsho
- Plexippus wesolowskae
- Plexippus zabkai