Pellenes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Hyllothyene.[2]
| Pellenes | |
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| Male Pellenes peninsularis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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) | |
| Species | |
83, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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.
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains eighty-three species and one subspecies, found in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Saint Helena:[1]
- P. aethiopicus Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
- P. albopilosus (Tyschchenko, 1965) – Russia, Kazakhstan
- P. allegrii Caporiacco, 1935 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
- P. amazonka Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Central Asia
- P. apacheus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 – USA
- P. arciger (Walckenaer, 1837) – Southern Europe, Armenia
- P. badkhyzicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Turkmenistan
- P. beani Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
- P. bitaeniata (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
- P. bonus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Ukraine (Crimea), Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
- P. borisi Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Kazakhstan
- P. brevis (Simon, 1868) – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran
- P. bulawayoensis Wesolowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho
- P. canadensis Maddison, 2017 – Canada, USA
- P. canosus Simon, 1937 – France
- P. cinctipes (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
- P. cingulatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- P. corticolens Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
- P. crandalli Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 – USA
- P. dahli Lessert, 1915 – Uganda, Kenya
- P. denisi Schenkel, 1963 – Tajikistan, China
- P. diagonalis (Simon, 1868) – Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Iran
- P. dilutus Logunov, 1995 – Central Asia
- P. durioei (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
- P. dyali Roewer, 1951 – Pakistan
- P. epularis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece to China, Namibia, South Africa
- P. flavipalpis (Lucas, 1853) – Greece (incl. Crete), Turkey, Cyprus
- P. frischi (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt
- P. geniculatus (Simon, 1868) – Southern Europe, Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- Pellenes g. subsultans (Simon, 1868) – France
- P. gerensis Hu, 2001 – China
- P. gobiensis Schenkel, 1936 – Russia, Mongolia, China
- P. grammaticus Chamberlin, 1925 – USA
- P. hadaensis Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia
- P. hedjazensis Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
- P. himalaya Caleb, Sajan & Kumar, 2018 – India
- P. iforhasorum Berland & Millot, 1941 – Sudan, Mali
- P. ignifrons (Grube, 1861) – USA, Canada, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia
- P. inexcultus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – St. Helena
- P. iva Caleb, 2018 – India
- P. karakumensis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Turkmenistan
- P. laevigatus (Simon, 1868) – Greece (Corfu), Lebanon
- P. lagrecai Cantarella & Alicata, 2002 – Italy
- P. lapponicus (Sundevall, 1833) – North America, Alpine and Northern Europe, Russia (European to Far East)
- P. levaillanti (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
- P. levii Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 – USA
- P. limatus Peckham & Peckham, 1901 – USA
- P. limbatus Kulczyński, 1895 – Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- P. logunovi Marusik, Hippa & Koponen, 1996 – Russia
- P. longimanus Emerton, 1913 – USA
- P. lucidus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 – Afghanistan
- P. luculentus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 – Yemen
- P. maderianus Kulczyński, 1905 – Madeira, Israel
- P. marionis (Schmidt & Krause, 1994) – Cape Verde Is.
- P. mimicus Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
- P. minimus (Caporiacco, 1933) – Libya
- P. modicus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania, South Africa
- P. moreanus Metzner, 1999 – Macedonia, Greece, Turkey
- P. negevensis Prószyński, 2000 – Israel
- P. nigrociliatus (Simon, 1875) – Canary Is., Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia to Central Asia, China
- P. obliquostriatus Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
- P. obvolutus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
- P. pamiricus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Tajikistan
- P. peninsularis Emerton, 1925 – Canada, USA
- P. perexcultus Clark & Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
- P. pseudobrevis Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Central Asia
- P. pulcher Logunov, 1995 – Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
- P. purcelli Lessert, 1915 – Uganda
- P. rufoclypeatus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
- P. seriatus (Thorell, 1875) – France, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- P. shoshonensis Gertsch, 1934 – USA
- P. sibiricus Logunov & Marusik, 1994 – Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- P. siculus Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 – Italy (Sicily)
- P. stepposus (Logunov, 1991) – Russia, Kazakhstan
- P. striolatus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2002 – Yemen (Socotra)
- P. sytchevskayae Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- P. tharinae Wesolowska, 2006 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- P. tocharistanus Andreeva, 1976 – Central Asia
- P. tripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia to Central Asia, China
- P. turkmenicus Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 – Russia, Central Asia
- P. unipunctus Saito, 1937 – China
- P. univittatus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia
- P. vanharteni Wesolowska, 1998 – Cape Verde Is.
- P. washonus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 – USA