Phintella
Genus of spiders
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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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| Female P. lajuma | |
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| Male Phintella vittata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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88, see text | |
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
P. aequipes
P. australis
Female Phintella piatensis
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As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 88 species:[1]
- Phintella abnormis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Phintella accentifera (Simon, 1901) – India
- Phintella aequipeiformis Żabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
- Phintella aequipes (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – Ivory Coast, Ghama, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
- Phintella africana Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
- Phintella albopatella (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – Myanmar
- Phintella arcuata Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- Phintella arenicolor (Grube, 1861) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Phintella argentea Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- Phintella argenteola (Simon, 1903) – Vietnam
- Phintella assamica Prószyński, 1992 – India, Laos
- Phintella australis (Simon, 1902) – South Africa
- Phintella banna Wang & Li, 2020 – China
- Phintella bella Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- Phintella bidentata Biswas, 2025 – Bangladesh
- Phintella bifurcata Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Phintella bifurcilinea (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam (type species)
- Phintella brevis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda
- Phintella bunyiae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Phintella caledoniensis Patoleta, 2009 – New Caledonia
- Phintella candramawa Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Phintella castor Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Phintella castriesiana (Grube, 1861) – Canary Islands, Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan
- Phintella cavaleriei (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Korea
- Phintella cholkei Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
- Phintella chopardi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Uganda
- Phintella chunfen Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China
- Phintella clathrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
- Phintella conradi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Phintella coonooriensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Phintella daklak Hoang, 2023 – Vietnam
- Phintella debilis (Thorell, 1891) – India to Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia (Java)
- Phintella dentis Sudhin, Caleb & Sen, 2024 – India
- Phintella dhritiae Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India
- Phintella dives (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Phintella elegans Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
- Phintella fanjingshan Li, Wang, Zhang & Chen, 2019 – China
- Phintella fodingensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- Phintella globosa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast, Uganda
- Phintella hainani Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 – China (Hainan)
- Phintella handersoni Sen, Sudhin & Caleb, 2024 – India, China, Vietnam
- Phintella hongkan Wang, Gan & Mi, 2024 – China (Hainan)
- Phintella incerta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- Phintella jaleeli Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- Phintella jiugongensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- Phintella jucunda Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- Phintella kaptega Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 – Guinea, Uganda, Kenya
- Phintella lajuma Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 – South Africa
- Phintella lepidus Cao & Li, 2016 – China
- Phintella liae C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- Phintella linea (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Phintella liui C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China (Hainan)
- Phintella longapophysis Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
- Phintella lucida Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia, Kenya
- Phintella luna Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2024 – India
- Phintella lunda Wesołowska, 2010 – Angola
- Phintella macrops (Simon, 1901) – India
- Phintella mii Wang & Li, 2020 – China
- Phintella minor (Lessert, 1925) – Guinea, Ivory Coast
- Phintella monteithi Żabka, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Phintella multimaculata (Simon, 1901) – Sri Lanka
- Phintella nilgirica Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Phintella nilotica Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- Phintella occidentalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
- Phintella paludosa Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Mozambique
- Phintella panda Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- Phintella parva (Wesołowska, 1981) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea
- Phintella piatensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Phintella planiceps Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Caroline Is.
- Phintella platnicki Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India
- Phintella popovi (Prószyński, 1979) – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), China, Korea
- Phintella pulcherrima Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- Phintella pygmaea (Wesołowska, 1981) – China
- Phintella rajbharathi Caleb, Sudhin & Sen, 2024 – India
- Phintella reinhardti (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
- Phintella sancha Cao & Li, 2016 – China, Vietnam
- Phintella siginjai Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Phintella suavis (Simon, 1886) – Malaysia
- Phintella suavisoides Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
- Phintella subpanda C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- Phintella sufflava (Jastrzebski, 2009) – Bhutan
- Phintella suknana Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Phintella transversa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
- Phintella vittata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China to Philippines
- Phintella wandae C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- Phintella wulingensis Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- Phintella yi Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China
- Phintella yinae Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
