Peplometus

Peplometus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900. When he first established the genus, Simon assigned Peplometus to the Balleae group alongside the related genus Pachyballus. In their 2003 phylogenetic analysis, Wayne Maddison and Marshall Hedin noted that Pachyballus is closely related to Mantisatta, despite the large physiological differences between them, and the similarity of those spiders with a group of genera they termed Marpissoida but made no comment on Peplometus.