Phintelloides
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| Phintelloides | |
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| female P. versicolor from Thailand | |
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| male P. versicolor from Malaysia | |
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 | |
| Chrysilla jesudasi (Caleb & Mathai, 2014) | |
| Species | |
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11, see text | |
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]
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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]
As 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)