Phintella

Phintella
Male Phintella vittata
Female Phintella piatensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus:
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.

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]

  • P. abnormis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • P. accentifera (Simon, 1901) – India, China, Vietnam
  • P. aequipeiformis Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
  • P. aequipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – Africa
    • Phintella a. minor (Lessert, 1925) – East Africa
  • P. africana Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
  • P. albopatella (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – Myanmar
  • P. arcuata Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
  • P. arenicolor (Grube, 1861) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • P. argentea Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
  • P. argenteola (Simon, 1903) – Vietnam
  • P. assamica Prószyński, 1992 – India, Laos
  • P. australis (Simon, 1902) – South Africa
  • p. banna Wang & Li, 2020 – China
  • P. bifurcata Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • P. bifurcilinea (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (type) – China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan
  • P. brevis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
  • P. bunyiae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • P. caledoniensis Patoleta, 2009New Caledonia
  • P. castriesiana (Grube, 1861) – Canary Is., southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia, Korea, Japan
  • P. cavaleriei (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Korea
  • P.cholkei Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
  • P. clathrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
  • P. conradi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • P. coonooriensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • P. debilis (Thorell, 1891) – India to Taiwan, Indonesia (Java)
  • P. dives (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • P. fanjingshan Li, Wang, Zhang & Chen, 2019 – China
  • P. hainani Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 – China
  • P. globosa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
  • P. incerta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
  • P. indica (Simon, 1901) – India
  • P. jaleeli Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
  • P. kaptega Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
  • P. lajuma Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa
  • P. lepidus Cao & Li, 2016 – China
  • P. leucaspis (Simon, 1903) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • P. levii Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
  • P. linea (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • P. longapophysis Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
  • P. longlingensis Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
  • P. lucida Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia, Kenya
  • P. lunda Wesolowska, 2010 – Angola
  • P. macrops (Simon, 1901) – India
  • P. mii Wang & Li, 2020 – China
  • P. minor (Lessert, 1925) – Ivory Coast
  • P. monteithi Zabka, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
  • P. multimaculata (Simon, 1901) – Sri Lanka
  • P. nilgirica Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • P. occidentalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
  • P. paludosa Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
  • P. paminta Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
  • P. panda Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
  • P. parva (Wesolowska, 1981) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea
  • P. piatensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • P. planiceps Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Caroline Is.
  • P.platnicki Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 –India
  • P. popovi (Prószyński, 1979) – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), China, Korea
  • P. pulcherrima Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
  • P. pygmaea (Wesolowska, 1981) – China
  • P. reinhardti (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
  • P. sancha Cao & Li, 2016 – China
  • P. suavis (Simon, 1885) – China, Nepal to Malaysia
  • P. suavisoides Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
  • P. suknana Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • P. tengchongensis Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
  • P. transversa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
  • P. vittata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Philippines
  • P. wulingensis Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
  • P. yinae Lei & Peng, 2013 – China

References

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b Prószyński, Jerzy (1983). "Position of genus Phintella (Araneae: Salticidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 31 (2): 43–48}. doi:10.2476/asjaa.31.43.
  5. ^ a b Maddison, Wayne P.; Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 17 (4): 529–549. doi:10.1071/IS02044.
  6. ^ a b c 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.