Plexippus

Plexippus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. Plexippus spiders have been sighted 39 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Plexippus includes 12 countries and 5 states in the United States. Plexippus is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Plexippus

Author

C. L. Koch, 1846

Sightings Overview

There have been 39 confirmed sightings of Plexippus, with the most recent sighting submitted on September 30, 2023 by Spider ID member spiderspidersp. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 39 sightings because of certain Plexippus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 5% of the time, Plexippus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 39)
Sex: 4 female and 16 male.
Environment: Plexippus has been sighted 14 times outdoors, and 25 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (12). Low foliage (2).

Location and Range

Plexippus has been sighted in the following countries: Cape Verde, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kuwait, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, Thailand, Turkey, United States.

Plexippus has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, South Carolina, Texas.