Peplometus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Peplometus

| image = Peplometus biscutellatus (10.3897-zookeys.944.49921) Figures 143–145.jpg

| image_caption = Peplometus biscutellatus

| authority = Simon, 1900

| type_species = P. biscutellatus

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1887)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| P. biscutellatus|(Simon, 1887) – West Africa

| P. chlorophthalmus|Simon, 1900 – South Africa}}

}}

Peplometus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1900| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=381–407| volume=44| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only two species, found only in Africa: P. biscutellatus and P. chlorophthalmus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Peplometus Simon, 1900| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-10| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2873| doi=10.24436/2}}