Phintelloides

Phintelloides is a genus of Asian jumping spiders first described by N. Kanesharatnam & Benjamin in 2019.[2]

Phintelloides
Male Phintelloides versicolor from Kozhikode district, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Phintelloides
Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019[1]
Type species
P. jesudasi (Caleb & Mathai, 2014)
Species

7, see text

Taxonomy

The genus Phintelloides was first described in 2019 by N. Kanesharatnam and Benjamin. They studied a group of South Asian spiders that had originally been identified as belonging to the genera Chrysilla and Phintella. Their molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses showed that there were three distinct groups of species, relatively distant from Chrysilla. Accordingly, they erected two new genera, Phintelloides and Proszynskia. The single most likely cladogram showed that Phintelloides was sister to Phintella, with Proszynskia sister to both:[2]

Proszynskia

Phintelloides

Phintella

Species

As of April 2019 the genus contained seven species:[1]

  • Phintelloides alborea Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 — Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides brunne Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 — Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides flavoviri Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 — Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 — Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides jesudasi (Caleb & Mathai, 2014) — India, Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides orbisa Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 — Sri Lanka
  • Phintelloides versicolor (C. L. Koch, 1846) — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra). Introduced to USA (Hawaii)

References

  1. "Gen. Phintelloides Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.839.28312.


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