Common Housefly Catcher
This common salticid is more frequently found inside houses in Southeast Asia than P. paykulli. The male is smaller and shows a body pattern different than that of P. paykulli. The female is almost indistinguishable in external appearance from that of P. paykulli females, except that it is smaller.
| Length | ♀ 7–9 mm; ♂ 6–7 mm |
| Type Locality | Mozambique |
| Distribution | Widespread, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, China, South Korea, Bangladesh, India, Russia, Mexico, Mozambique. |
| Habitat | Inside houses, occasionally on external walls, or tree trunks. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Holotype
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); ♂ (2863)
Holotype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ (5393/18) of Plexippus calcutaensis (Caleb et al., 2022b)
Paratype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 1♀ (5994/18) of Plexippus calcutaensis (Caleb et al., 2022b)
Euophrys petersii (Original description ♂)
Karsch, 1878a Übersicht der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Arachniden: 332, pl. 2, f. 7
Plexippus petersi
Simon, 1903a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 728 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Plexippus paykulli (♂♀)
Chrysanthus, 1968 Spiders from south New Guinea X: 61, f. 61-65
Marpissa calcutaensis (Original description ♀)
Tikader, 1974b Studies on some jumping spiders of the genus Marpissa from India (family-Salticidae): 210, f. 9-10
Marpissa calcutaensis (♀)
Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 96, f. 175-176
Marpissa calcutaensis (♀)
Barrion, Amalin & Ulilang, 1984 Some jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Mt: 7, f. 6
Plexippus calcutaensis (Transferred from Marpissa)
Nenilin, 1984a [Materials on the fauna of the spider family Salticidae of the USSR: 6
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 433, f. 464-470
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Prószyński, 1987 Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2: 80
Plexippus petersi (♂)
Próchniewicz, 1989 Über die Typen von Arten der Salticidae (Araneae) aus der äthiopischen Region im Zoologischen Museum Berlin: 219, f. 39-43 doi:10.1002/mmnz.19890650204
Plexippus petersi (♂)
Żabka, 1990b Salticidae from the Nepal and Bhutan Himalayas: 172, f. 26-27
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Song & Chai, 1991 New species and new records of the family Salticidae from Hainan, China (Arachnida: Araneae): 21, f. 12A-D
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Xie, 1993 New records of Salticidae from China (Arachnida: Araneae): 359, f. 11-15
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 183, f. 639-645
Plexippus petersi (♂)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 83, f. 41a-g
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 541, f. 310Q, 312C, 328M
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Peng & Li, 2003b Spiders of the genus Plexippus from China (Araneae: Salticidae): 752, f. 3A-F
Plexippus petersi (♀)
Jang, Choe & Kim, 2007 Two newly recorded jumping spiders from Korea: 101, f. 3-4
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1443, f. 787a-f
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Żabka & Gardzińska, 2017 Salticidae of Thailand: 232, f. 3A-F, 4A-F doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2017.67.2.004
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Prószyński, 2017c Remarks on the genus Plexippus C: 62, f. 1A-1F1, 2J-L, 4E, 5A-A1 doi:10.37828/em.2017.13.5
Plexippus petersi (♀)
Tyagi et al., 2019 Identification of Indian spiders through DNA barcoding: cryptic species and species complex: Supplement, f. S2.56, S3.37-38 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50510-8
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 338, f. 243a-f
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021 Three new species and six newly recorded species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Taiwan: 310, f. 25A-B, 26A-D, 27A-B, 28A-D doi:10.4236/nr.2021.129021
Marpissa calcuttaensis (♀)
Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2022 Taxonomic account of jumping spiders – genus Marpissa C: 6, f. 3a-e, 5c doi:10.3329/jbcbm.v7i1.57118
Plexippus petersi (♂♀)
Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022 Spiders of Mt. Xiaowutai: 358, f. 276A-G
Plexippus petersi (♀, Synonym of Plexippus calcutaensis)
Caleb et al., 2022b A new species and two new synonyms in the genus Plexippus C: 315, f. 20-25 doi:10.15298/arthsel.31.3.07
Plexippus petersi (♂)
Alcántar-Valenzuela et al., 2024 Current knowledge of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Sinaloa, Mexico: species checklist and new records, including the first record of Plexippus petersi Karsch, 1878 for America: 17, f. 45-47 doi:10.21829/azm.2024.4012671
Plexippus petersi (♀)
Murray, Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024 Three new species of plexippine jumping spiders (Salticidae, Salticinae, Plexippini) from dry forest in Boeny region, north-western Madagascar: 71, f. 34-36 doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.65.126810
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Widespread, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, China, South Korea, Bangladesh, India, Russia, Mexico, Mozambique.