Pellenes
| Pellenes | |
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| P. modicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pellenes Simon, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. tripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802)
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66, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pellenes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first circumscribed by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Hyllothyene.[2] In 2000, Dmitri Logunov, Yuri Marusik and Sergei Rakov divided the genus Pellenes into four subgenera, based on the shape of the male palpal bulb.[4] The subgenera are Pelmirus, Pelmultus, and Pelpaucus.[5][6] Wayne Maddison placed the genus in the subtribe Harmochirina in the tribe Plexippini in 2015.[7] This had previously been known as Harmochireae, as circumscribed by Simon in 1903.[8] It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida.[9] The spiders are a member of Plexippoida.[10] Phylogenetic analysis of molecular data demonstrates that the genus is most closely related to Habronattus and Havaika.[11] In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with Dexippus under the name Pelenines, named after the genus.[12] It is allocated to the supergroup Hylloida.[13]
They are dark to black with white stripes on the back, and often have bright red markings. Most species have a special propensity for snail shells. Pellenes seriatus and P. lapponicus males look very similar to Hasarius adansoni when viewed from the front.
Distribution
[edit]Pellenes are found in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Saint Helena:[1]
Species
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P. nigrociliatus -
P. seriatus
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As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 66 species and one subspecies:[1]
- Pellenes albopilosus (Tystshenko, 1965) – Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Kazakhstan
- Pellenes allegrii Caporiacco, 1935 – Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, India
- Pellenes amazonka Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- Pellenes arciger (Walckenaer, 1837) – Canary Islands, Southern Europe, Algeria, Armenia
- Pellenes badkhyzicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Turkmenistan
- Pellenes beani G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
- Pellenes bitaeniata (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
- Pellenes bonus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Ukraine (Crimea), Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
- Pellenes borisi Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Kazakhstan
- Pellenes brevis (Simon, 1868) – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Ukraine, Armenia, Iran
- Pellenes canosus Simon, 1937 – France
- Pellenes cingulatus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- Pellenes dahli Lessert, 1915 – Uganda, Kenya
- Pellenes denisi Schenkel, 1963 – Tajikistan, China
- Pellenes diagonalis (Simon, 1868) – North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Israel, Iran
- Pellenes dilutus Logunov, 1995 – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Pellenes durioei (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
- Pellenes epularis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece to China, Namibia, South Africa
- Pellenes flavipalpis (Lucas, 1853) – Greece (incl. Crete), Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel
- Pellenes florii Schäfer, 2020 – Greece (Crete)
- Pellenes geniculatus (Simon, 1868) – Southern Europe, Morocco, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- P. g. subsultans (Simon, 1868) – France
- Pellenes gobiensis Schenkel, 1936 – Russia (South Siberia to Far North-East), Mongolia, China
- Pellenes hadaensis Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia
- Pellenes hedjazensis Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
- Pellenes himalaya Caleb, Sajan & Kumar, 2018 – India
- Pellenes iforhasorum Berland & Millot, 1941 – Sudan, Mali
- Pellenes ignifrons (Grube, 1861) – United States, Canada, Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia
- Pellenes ignotus Logunov, 2023 – Iran
- Pellenes inexcultus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – St. Helena
- Pellenes iva Caleb, 2018 – India
- Pellenes karakumensis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Turkmenistan
- Pellenes laevigatus (Simon, 1868) – Greece (Corfu), Lebanon
- Pellenes lagrecai Cantarella & Alicata, 2002 – Italy
- Pellenes lapponicus (Sundevall, 1833) – North America, Alps (France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy), Northern Europe, Russia (Europe, South Siberia)
- Pellenes levaillanti (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
- Pellenes limbatus Kulczyński, 1895 – Russia (Middle to north-eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
- Pellenes logunovi Marusik, Hippa & Koponen, 1996 – Russia (South Siberia)
- Pellenes lucidus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 – Afghanistan
- Pellenes luculentus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007 – Yemen
- Pellenes maderianus Kulczyński, 1905 – Madeira, Morocco
- Pellenes marionis (Schmidt & Krause, 1994) – Cape Verde
- Pellenes minimus (Caporiacco, 1933) – Libya
- Pellenes modicus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa
- Pellenes moreanus Metzner, 1999 – North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey
- Pellenes negevensis Prószyński, 2000 – Israel
- Pellenes nigrociliatus (Simon, 1875) – Canary Islands, Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Central Asia, China
- Pellenes obliquostriatus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
- Pellenes obvolutus Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 – Kenya
- Pellenes pamiricus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Tajikistan
- Pellenes perexcultus Clark & Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
- Pellenes pseudobrevis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- Pellenes pulcher Logunov, 1995 – Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia
- Pellenes purcelli Lessert, 1915 – Uganda
- Pellenes rufoclypeatus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
- Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875) – France, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia
- Pellenes sibiricus Logunov & Marusik, 1994 – Russia (Europe, Caucasus to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Pellenes siculus Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 – Italy (Sicily)
- Pellenes striolatus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2002 – Yemen (Socotra)
- Pellenes sytchevskayae Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Pellenes tharinae Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Pellenes tocharistanus Andreeva, 1976 – Central Asia
- Pellenes tripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, China (type species)
- Pellenes turkmenicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Central Asia
- Pellenes unipunctus Saito, 1937 – China
- Pellenes univittatus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia
- Pellenes vanharteni Wesołowska, 1998 – Cape Verde
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Gen. Pellenes Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
- ^ a b Prószyński 1984, p. 44.
- ^ Simon 1876, p. 364.
- ^ Prószyński 2016, p. 17.
- ^ Logunov, Marusik & Rakov 1999, p. 96.
- ^ Haddad & Wesołowska 2011, p. 97.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 280.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 251.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 278.
- ^ Maddison, Bodner & Needham 2008, p. 58.
- ^ Maddison & Hedin 2003, pp. 538, 540.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 44.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 31.
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