| Plexippus devorans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Plexippus |
| Species: | P. devorans |
| Binomial name | |
| Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | |
Plexippus devorans is a jumping spider that has a distribution that stretches from Greece to Central Asia and also includes Algeria. Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872, the species was transferred into the genus Hasarius by Eugène Simon in 1876, into Menemerus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984, and eventually into Plexippus by Prószyński in 2003.
Synonyms
Synonyms for the species include:
- Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902
- Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939
References
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Plexippus devorans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
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