Phintella globosa
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| Phintella globosa | |
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| The related male Phintella versicolor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Phintella |
| Species: | P. globosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Phintella globosa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 | |
Phintella globosa is a species of jumping spider in the genus Phintella that lives in Ivory Coast. First described by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2022, the spider is small, with a cephalothorax typically 2.1 mm (0.083 in) long and an abdomen 2.0 mm (0.079 in) long. Only the female has been described. The carapace is dark brown and the abdomen yellow. Although similar to the related Phintella lucida, the copulatory organs are distinctive. The spermathecae are particularly large and spherical, which is recalled in the species name.
Phintella globosa was first described in 2022 by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith.[1] The species is one of more than 500 described by Wesołowska.[2] It was allocated to the genus Phintella, raised in 1906 by Embrik Strand and W. Bösenberg.[3] The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles.[4] The species name is the Latin for spherical, and relates to the shape of the spermathecae.[5] The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus.[6] There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira, Chrysilla, Euophrys, Icius, Jotus and Telamonia.[7] Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera Helvetia and Menemerus and is classified in the tribe Chrysillini, named after the genus Chrysilla.[8][9] In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name Chrysillines in the supergroup Chrysilloida.[10]