Peplometus
| Peplometus | |
|---|---|
| Peplometus biscutellatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Peplometus Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. biscutellatus (Simon, 1887)
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| Species | |
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Peplometus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] When he first established the genus, Simon assigned Peplometus to the Balleae group alongside the related genus Pachyballus.[3] In their 2003 phylogenetic analysis, Wayne Maddison and Marshall Hedin noted that Pachyballus is closely related to Mantisatta, despite the large physiological differences between them, and the similarity of those spiders with a group of genera they termed Marpissoida but made no comment on Peplometus.[4]
In 2015, Maddison listed Peplometus within the tribe Ballini, derived from Simon's original name for the related genus Ballus, but attributed to an earlier author, Nathan Banks from 1892.[5] He allocated the tribe to the clade Marpissoida in the clade Salticoida.[6] It is likely that the ballines diverged from the wider Marpissoida clade between 20 and 25 million years ago, although Daniela Andriamalala estimated the family to be 3.99 million years old.[7] In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński added the genus to a group of genera termed Ballines, which contains many of the same genera, including Ballus and Pachyballus.[8]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes five species:[1]
- Peplometus biscutellatus (Simon, 1887) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon (type species)
- Peplometus chlorophthalmus Simon, 1900 – DR Congo, South Africa
- Peplometus congoensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Congo, DR Congo
- Peplometus nimba Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Guinea
- Peplometus oyo (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011) – Nigeria
References
Citations
- ^ a b "Gen. Peplometus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
- ^ Simon 1900, p. 399.
- ^ Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski 2020, p. 48.
- ^ Maddison & Hedin 2003, p. 539.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 244.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 277.
- ^ Bodner & Maddison 2016, p. 226.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 88.
Bibliography
- Bodner, Melissa R.; Maddison, Wayne P. (2016). "The biogeography and age of salticid spider radiations (Araneae: Salticidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (1): 213–240. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.005. PMID 22735169.
- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
- Maddison, Wayne P.; Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 17 (4): 529–549. doi:10.1071/IS02044.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
- Simon, Eugène (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae" [Descriptions of new arachnids of the family Attidae]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (in French). 44: 381–407.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; Azarkina, Galina N.; Wiśniewski, Konrad (2020). "A revision of Peplometus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species". ZooKeys (944): 47–98. Bibcode:2020ZooK..944...47W. doi:10.3897/zookeys.944.49921. PMC 7340629. PMID 32684773.