Pellenes

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pellenes

| image = Edwards_Pellenes_wrighti_01.jpg

| image_caption = Male Pellenes peninsularis

| authority = Simon, 1876

| type_species = P. tripunctatus

| type_species_authority = (Walckenaer, 1802)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 83, see text

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Pellenes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1876| title=Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième| publisher=Roret, Paris| pages=364| author-link=Eugène Simon}} It is considered a senior synonym of Hyllothyene.{{cite book| last=Prószyński| first=J.| year=1987| title=Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2| author-link=Jerzy Prószyński| page=44}}

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|2019|08}} it contains eighty-three species and one subspecies, found in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Saint Helena:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pellenes Simon, 1876| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2868| doi=10.24436/2}}

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