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]
| Phintelloides | |
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| Male Phintelloides versicolor from Kozhikode district, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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)
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11, see text | |
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The name is a combination of the "Phintell", referring to the genus Phintella, and the Latin suffix "-oides", meaning "like".[2]
Species
editAs of April 2022[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- P. alborea Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- P. brunne Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- P. flavoviri Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- P. flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- P. jesudasi (Caleb & Mathai, 2014) (type) – India, Sri Lanka
- P. manipur Caleb, 2020 – India
- P. orbisa Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- P. pengi Wang & Li, 2021 – China
- P. singhi (Monga, Singh & Sadana, 1989) – India
- P. undulatus (Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015) – India
- P. versicolor (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia (Sumatra). Introduced to USA (Hawaii)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Phintelloides Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ a b 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.
Further reading
edit- Wang, C.; Li, S. Q. (2021). "On ten species of jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, China (Araneae, Salticidae)". ZooKeys (1062): 123–155. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1062..123W. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1062.72531. PMC 8530996. PMID 34720619.
- Prajapati, D. A.; Kamboj, R. D. (2020). "First description of the female of Phintelloides undulatus (Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015) (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini)". Arachnology. 18 (6): 602–606. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.602. S2CID 226256640.
- Caleb, J. T. D.; Acharya, S. (2020). "Jumping spiders of the genus Phintelloides from India, with the description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 127 (1): 95–100. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0009. S2CID 219310857.