Phintelloides

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Phintelloides
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female P. versicolor from Thailand
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male P. versicolor from Malaysia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Phintelloides
Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 [1]
Type species
Chrysilla jesudasi
(Caleb & Mathai, 2014)
Species

11, see text

Phintelloides is a genus of Asian jumping spiders erected by N. Kanesharatnam and Benjamin in 2019 after a molecular phylogenetic study of similar Asian Salticidae species. The single most likely cladogram shows that Phintelloides is sister to Phintella, with Proszynskia sister to both: [2]

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Proszynskia

Phintelloides

Phintella

The name is a combination of the "Phintell", referring to the genus Phintella , and the Latin suffix "-oides", meaning "like". [2]

Species

As of April 2022 it contains eleven species: [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Phintelloides Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  2. 1 2 Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2019). "Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis reveals a radiation of shiny South Asian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)". ZooKeys (839): 1–81. Bibcode:2019ZooK..839....1K. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.839.28312 . PMC   6482596 . PMID   31065224.

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