Peplometus
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| Peplometus biscutellatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | 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]
Species
As of July 2025 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
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Peplometus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 26.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.