Pellenes

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Pellenes | image = Pellenes modicus 300865044 542125593.jpg | image_caption = ''P. modicus'' | authority = Simon, 1876<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''P. tripunctatus'' | type_species_authority = (Walckenaer, 1802) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 66, see text | synonyms = *''Hyllothyene'' Caporiacco, 1939{{sfn|Prószyński|1984|page=44}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=wsc /> }}

'''''Pellenes''''' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first circumscribed by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.{{sfn|Simon| 1876|page=364}} It is considered a senior synonym of ''Hyllothyene''.{{sfn|Prószyński|1984|page=44}} 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.{{sfn|Prószyński|2016|page=17}} The subgenera are ''Pelmirus'', ''Pelmultus'', and ''Pelpaucus''.{{sfn|Logunov|Marusik|Rakov|1999|page=96}}{{sfn|Haddad|Wesołowska|2011|page=97}} Wayne Maddison placed the genus in the subtribe Harmochirina in the tribe Plexippini in 2015.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=280}} This had previously been known as Harmochireae, as circumscribed by Simon in 1903.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=251}} It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=278}} The spiders are a member of Plexippoida.{{sfn|Maddison|Bodner|Needham|2008|page=58}} Phylogenetic analysis of molecular data demonstrates that the genus is most closely related to ''Habronattus'' and ''Havaika''.{{sfn|Maddison|Hedin|2003|pages=538, 540}} In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with ''Dexippus'' under the name Pelenines, named after the genus.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=44}} It is allocated to the supergroup Hylloida.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=31}}

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== ''Pellenes'' are found in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Saint Helena:<ref name=wsc />

==Species== <gallery mode=packed heights=140px> Pellenes epularis 268945497.jpg|''P. epularis'' Pellenes nigrociliatus fg02.jpg|''P. nigrociliatus'' Salticidae - Pellenes seriatus.-1 (8303321235).jpg|''P. seriatus'' </gallery>

{{as of|2025|10}}, this genus includes 66 species and one subspecies:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''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 {{Div col end}}

==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2868 | title=Gen. ''Pellenes'' Simon, 1876 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2025-10-17}}</ref> }}

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==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}

* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/pellenes/brev-hol-ph.htm Photograph of ''P. brevis''] * [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/pellenes/trip-hol-ph.htm Photograph of ''P. tripunctatus''] * [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Salticidae/Salticidae.htm Photographs of ''P. seriatus'', ''P. arciger'', ''P. nigrociliatus'' and ''P. tripunctatus'']

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