Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016

Prószyński, Jerzy, 2017, Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 13, pp. 39-69 : 57-58

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2017.13.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A892A9F3-042C-4663-8602-F3172659614C

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/196587F4-FFE4-FFEB-FE05-F8FCFE14FD25

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016
status

 

Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 View in CoL

Figures 2O View Figure 2 , 4P View Figure 4

Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016: 454 View in CoL , f. 69-70, 107 (Dm). Material. Holotype male and 2 paratypes males from Kenya: Mt Elgon , Suam River, 2100 m. Coll. A. Holm (studied by Dawidowicz & Wesołowska).

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

Diagnosis. Body appearance, proportions and color pattern, does not resemble Plexippus ( Fig. 2O View Figure 2 ), general appearance of palp resembles Plexippus but differs significantly in details [ Fig. 4P View Figure 4 ] - embolus is fleshy with only tip sclerotized, embolar basis only indistinctly swollen prolaterally, devoid of sclerotized, serrated rim. Tibial apophysis is also different - needle like, sclerotized and bent, set perpendicularly to tibia.

Conclusion. The position of the species seems to be uncertain. Unless confirmed by discovery of a chain of gradual changes to typical features of Plexippus , in numerous new species, the species deserves to be placed in a genus of its own.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Plexippus

Loc

Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016

Prószyński, Jerzy 2017
2017
Loc

Plexippus fibulatus

Dawidowicz, A. & Wesolowska, W. 2016: 454
2016
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