Phintelloides | |
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Male Phintelloides versicolor from Kozhikode district, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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)
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Species | |
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]