Plexippus devorans

Plexippus devorans is a jumping spider that has a distribution that stretches from Greece to Central Asia and also includes Algeria.^[1] Originally placed in the genus Salticus by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872,^[2] 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.^[1]

Plexippus devorans
Scientific classification
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)

Synonyms

Synonyms for the species include:^[1]

• Plexippus coccineus Simon, 1902
• Plexippus strandi Spassky, 1939