Phiale (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Phiale (disambiguation).

Phiale
P. formosa
female P. gratiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Phiale C. L. Koch, 1846 [1]
Type species
P. gratiosa C. L. Koch, 1846
Species
25, see text

Phiale is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. ^[2]

Species

• 
  male P. guttata
• 
  male P. crocea
• 
  female P. mimica
• 
  male P. tristis

As of August 2019 ^[update] it contains twenty-five species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama: ^[1]

• Phiale aschnae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
• Phiale bipunctata Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil
• Phiale bisignata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Guatemala
• Phiale bryantae Roewer, 1951 – Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua)
• Phiale bulbosa (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Phiale crocea C. L. Koch, 1846 – Panama to Brazil
• Phiale cruentata (Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil, French Guiana
• Phiale cubana Roewer, 1951 – Cuba
• Phiale elegans (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Phiale formosa (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
• Phiale geminata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Phiale gratiosa C. L. Koch, 1846 (type) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Phiale guttata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Costa Rica to Paraguay
• Phiale huadquinae Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru
• Phiale longibarba (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Phiale mimica (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil
• Phiale ortrudae Galiano, 1981 – Ecuador
• Phiale pallida (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala
• Phiale quadrimaculata (Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil
• Phiale radians (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil
• Phiale roburifoliata Holmberg, 1875 – Argentina
• Phiale rubriceps (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Phiale septemguttata (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Phiale tristis Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
• Phiale virgo C. L. Koch, 1846 – Suriname

P. albovittata has been considered a junior synonym of Freya perelegans since 2006.

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Phiale C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-11.
2. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.

External links

• Photographs of Phiale species
• Pictures of P. bulbosa
• Pictures of P. formosa
• Pictures of P. guttata