Pellenes geniculatus

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Pellenes geniculatus
Jumping Spider (Pellenes geniculatus) female on nest ... - Flickr - berniedup.jpg
In Octon, Hérault, France in 2017
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pellenes
Species:
P. geniculatus
Binomial name
Pellenes geniculatus
(Simon, 1868)
Synonyms[1]
  • Attus geniculatus Simon, 1868
  • Attus gemellus Simon, 1873
  • Pellenes gemellus (Simon, 1876)
  • Pellenes kraepelinorum Bösenberg, 1895
  • Pellenes kulabicus Andreeva, 1976

Pellenes geniculatus is a jumping spider species in the genus Pellenes.

Taxonomy[]

Originally allocated to the genus Attus, the species was first identified by Eugène Simon in 1868 but was given its current name in 1876.[1]

Description[]

Pellenes geniculatus is a small spider. The female is larger at between 4.2 and 5 mm (0.17 and 0.20 in) long, compared to the male that is between 3.35 and 3.7 mm (0.132 and 0.146 in) long.[2] The spider has a carapace 1.75 mm (0.069 in) long. The male has an abdomen of a similar length that is brown with either a longitudinal white stripe or cross-link colour markings while the female has a larger abdomen, 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long, which is brownish yellow.[3] There is some variation between specimens, particularly between those in Southern Africa and those found in Europe and Asia.[4]

Distribution[]

The species has been found in an area that stretches across Southern Europe, Africa and Central Asia.[1] The furthest east that it has been identified is Mongolia and the furthest south is southern Africa.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum, Bern. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. ^ Nentwig, W; Blick, T; Gloor, D; Hänggi, A; Kropf, C (2018). "Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868)". Spiders of Europe. UNIBE. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. ^ Logunov, D.V. (1999). "A review of the genus Pellenes in the fauna of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Araneae, Salticidae)" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 33 (1): 128–129. doi:10.1080/002229399300489. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. ^ Wesołowska, W.; Haddad, C. R. (2014). "An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species". African Invertebrates. 55 (2): 255–257. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  5. ^ Fomichev, A.A. (2016). "New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from south-western Mongolia". Ukrainian Journal of Ecology. 6 (2): 104. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
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