Peplometus

Peplometus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[2]

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)
Species
P. biscutellatus (Simon, 1887) – West Africa P. chlorophthalmus Simon, 1900 – South Africa

Species

As of July 2025^[update] it contains fivespecies, found only in Africa:.^[1]

• Peplometus biscutellatus (Simon, 1887) (type) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon
• Peplometus chlorophthalmus Simon, 1900 – 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