Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates) ➔ Class Arachnida (Arachnids) ➔ Order Araneae (Spiders) ➔ Family Salticidae (Jumping spiders)

Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826)

Pantropical Jumping Spider

Synonyms and other combinations:

Plexippus bengalensis (Tikader, 1974) | Plexippus bocki (Roewer, 1944) | Plexippus crassus (Hogg, 1922) | Plexippus magnus (Berland, 1933) | Plexippus mandali (Tikader, 1974) | Plexippus mimus (Chamberlin, 1924) | Plexippus planipudens Karsch, 1881 | Plexippus punctatus Karsch, 1878 | Plexippus quadriguttatus Mello-Leitão, 1946 | Plexippus vetusta (C. L. Koch, 1846) |

  • Plexippus paykulli, female 4473
    Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826)    Pantropical Jumping Spider 
    Plexippus paykulli, female
    ES, Fuerteventura, Jandia; 2011-03-21 16:48:12
    Image number: 4473
    female
    ES, Fuerteventura, Jandia
    2011-03-21 16:48:12

Further vernacular names:
Pantropical Jumper
Distribution:
Africa. Introduced to both Americas, Europe, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Pacific Is.

References, further reading, links:
  1. Kropf C., Nentwig W., Blick T. & Gloor D. (organizing board). (2019). WSC: World Spider Catalog (version 19.5, Jan 2019). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
  2. Arachnologische Gesellschaft e. V. (2015): Wiki des Spinnen-Forums
  3. Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford, Helen Smith: Britain's Spiders A Field Guide, Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition, 496 Seiten, 2020, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-20474-1.
  4. Wolfgang Nentwig, Theo Blick, Robert Bosmans, Daniel Gloor, Ambros Hänggi & Christian Kropf: araneae Spinnen Europas
  5. Heiko Metzner: Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world
  6. Nyffeler M, Breene RG & Dean DA (1990): Facultative monophagy in the jumping spider Plexippus paykulli (Audouin) (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 2 (6), S. 92–96.
  7. Madee T. and S. Bumroongsook: Life History of Jumping Spiders, Plexippus paykulli, International Journal of Agricultural Technology 2017 Vol. 13(7.1): 1087-1092, Available online http://www.ijat-aatsea.com ISSN 1686-9141