Phintella lunda

The spider was initially described based on a holotype specimen found in a collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.^[9] The spider is medium-sized and thin, with a shape that is typical of the genus. The dark brown carapace is oval, elongated, covered in short hairs and has a black and white line that lines its edges. The clypeus is very dark, while the oval abdomen is greyish brown with streaks along the middle and sides. The spinnerets are short and brown.^[10]

The female and male are similar in size, with an abdomen that ranges in length between 2.0 and 2.7 mm (0.079 and 0.106 in) and a cephalothorax that varies between 1.7 and 1.9 mm (0.067 and 0.075 in) in length.^[3] The male has a short embolus and triangular palpal bulb with a straight edge, a feature that is unusual in the genus.^[11] The female has two copulatory openings in distinctive cups at the very end of the epigyne, which has two wide pockets either side of a central depression.^[10]

Phintella lunda has only been found in the Lunda Sul Province in Angola. It is one of only a small number of species in the genus that have been found in Africa.^[9][12]