Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878)

Prószyński, Jerzy, 2017, Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 13, pp. 39-69 : 62

Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878)

Figures 1 , 2 J-L, 4E, 5A-A1

Only selected quotation s:

Euophrys petersii Karsch, 1878a: 332 , pl. 2, f. 7 (Dm).

Plexippus petersi Simon, 1903a: 728 .

Plexippus petersi Zabka, 1985: 433 , f. 464-470 (mf).

Plexippus petersi Prószyński, 1987: 80 (mf).

Plexippus petersi Zabka, 1990b: 172 , f. 26-27 (m)..

Plexippus petersi Peng & Li, 2003b 752, f. 3A-F (mf).

Plexippus petersi Yin et al., 2012: 1443 , f. 787a-f (mf).

Plexippus petersi Żabka & Gardzińska, 2017: 232 , f. 3A- F, 4A-F (mf).

Documentation studied. Summary of world's literature provided by "Monograph of Salticidae ( Araneae ) of the World 1995-2016. Part I & 2" by Prószyński (2016 a, b) and current literature.

Remarks. Well known species, widely distributed in warm areas of Eastern Hemisphere. Females easily recognizable by narrow epigyne with anterior pocket. Defined sufficiently by Figs 1 , 2 J-L, 4E, 5A-A1.

Figures

Figure 1. Modern standard of taxonomic documentation of a species of Salticidae (on example of Plexippus petersi (Karsch, 1878, male A-F and female A1-F1), as befitting in 2017. It consists of precise diagnostic drawings of palps - E-F, epigyne and internal structure of epigyne E1-F1, repeated also as color photograph (to reduce inadequacies resulting from subjective interpretation by an artist) - D-D1, color photographs of unchanged habitus of specimens of both sexes (dorsal, frontal and ventral views, missing lateral view) A-C1. The size of individual illustrations permits clear perception of diagnostic characters.

Figure 2a. Color pattern and body shape of species of Plexippus.A-D - Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826) males, E-F - P. paykulli female - dorsal & frontal view, epigyne, G - P. setipes-1, H-I - P. setipes Karsch, 1879, Japan, epigyne (no data), J - P. petersi (Karsch, 1878) Kenya, K-L - P. petersi Queensland female and epigyne.