Phintella

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Phintella
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Male Phintella vittata
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Female Phintella piatensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Phintella
Strand, 1906 [1]
Type species
P. bifurcilinea
(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
Species

59, see text

Phintella is a genus of jumping spiders found in Eurasia, Africa, and some islands in the western Pacific. It includes 59 species.

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Taxonomy

The genus Phintella was circumscribed in 1906 by W. Bösenberg and Embrik Strand. The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles. [2]

The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus . [3] There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira , Chrysilla , Euophrys , Icius , Jotus and Telamonia . [4] Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera Helvetia and Menemerus . [5] It is a member of the tribe Heliophaninae, renamed Chrysillini by Wayne Maddison in 2015. [6] Chrysillines are monophyletic. [6] The tribe is ubiquitous across most of the continents of the world. [5] It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida. [6] In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name Chrysillines in the supergroup Chrysilloida. [4]

Species

As of June 2023, it contains fifty-nine species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, and Africa: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Phintella Strand, 1906". World Spider Catalog Version 24.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Bösenberg, W.; Strand, E. (1906). "Japanische Spinnen". Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 30: 93–422.
  3. ↑ Cameron, H. D.; Wijesinghe, D. P. (1993). "Simon's Keys to the Salticid Groups". Peckhamia. 3 (1): 1–26.
  4. 1 2 Prószyński, Jerzy (1983). "Position of genus Phintella (Araneae: Salticidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 31 (2): 43–48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.31.43.
  5. 1 2 Maddison, Wayne P.; Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 17 (4): 529–549. doi:10.1071/IS02044.
  6. 1 2 3 Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID   85680279.
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