Phanias (spider)

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Phanias
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Male Phanias albeolus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Phanias
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 [1]
Type species
P. flavostriatus
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901
Species

11, see text

Phanias is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. They are similar to members of Marpissa , but have three pairs of spines beneath the first tibia. [2]

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Species

As of August 2019 it contains eleven species, found only in Mexico, the United States, and El Salvador: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Phanias F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology