# Phintella

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***Phintella*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) found in [Eurasia](/source/Eurasia), [Africa](/source/Africa), and some islands in the [western Pacific](/source/Pacific_Ocean). It includes 59 species.

## Taxonomy

The [genus](/source/Genus) *Phintella* was [circumscribed](/source/Circumscription_(taxonomy)) in 1906 by [W. Bösenberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_B%C3%B6senberg) and [Embrik Strand](/source/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](/source/Tylogonus)*.[3] There are similarities between spiders within genus *Phintella* and those in *[Chira](/source/Chira_(spider))*, *[Chrysilla](/source/Chrysilla)*, *[Euophrys](/source/Euophrys)*, *[Icius](/source/Icius)*, *[Jotus](/source/Jotus)* and *[Telamonia](/source/Telamonia)*.[4] Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera *[Helvetia](/source/Helvetia)* and *[Menemerus](/source/Menemerus)*.[5] It is a member of the [tribe](/source/Tribe_(biology)) Heliophaninae, renamed [Chrysillini](/source/Chrysillini) by [Wayne Maddison](/source/Wayne_Maddison) in 2015.[6] Chrysillines are [monophyletic](/source/Monophyly).[6] The tribe is ubiquitous across most of the continents of the world.[5] It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the [clade](/source/Clade_(biology)) [Salticoida](/source/Salticoida).[6] In 2017, [Jerzy Prószyński](/source/Jerzy_Pr%C3%B3szy%C5%84ski) grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name *Chrysillines* in the supergroup Chrysilloida.[4]

## Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 88 species:[1]

- *[Phintella abnormis](/source/Phintella_abnormis)* (Bösenberg & [Strand](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1906) – [Russia](/source/Russia) (Far East), [China](/source/China), [Korea](/source/Korea), [Japan](/source/Japan)
- *[Phintella accentifera](/source/Phintella_accentifera)* ([Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1901) – [India](/source/India)
- *[Phintella aequipeiformis](/source/Phintella_aequipeiformis)* Żabka, 1985 – China, [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam)
- *[Phintella aequipes](/source/Phintella_aequipes)* ([G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham](/source/George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham), 1903) – [Ivory Coast](/source/Ivory_Coast), Ghama, [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria), [Uganda](/source/Uganda), [Kenya](/source/Kenya), [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania), [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe), [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
- *[Phintella africana](/source/Phintella_africana)* [Wesołowska](/source/Wanda_Weso%C5%82owska) & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia)
- *[Phintella albopatella](/source/Phintella_albopatella)* (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar)
- *[Phintella arcuata](/source/Phintella_arcuata)* Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- *[Phintella arenicolor](/source/Phintella_arenicolor)* (Grube, 1861) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- *[Phintella argentea](/source/Phintella_argentea)* Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka)
- *[Phintella argenteola](/source/Phintella_argenteola)* (Simon, 1903) – Vietnam
- *[Phintella assamica](/source/Phintella_assamica)* Prószyński, 1992 – India, [Laos](/source/Laos)
- *[Phintella australis](/source/Phintella_australis)* (Simon, 1902) – South Africa
- *[Phintella banna](/source/Phintella_banna)* Wang & Li, 2020 – China
- *[Phintella bella](/source/Phintella_bella)* Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- *[Phintella bidentata](/source/Phintella_bidentata)* Biswas, 2025 – [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh)
- *[Phintella bifurcata](/source/Phintella_bifurcata)* Prószyński, 1992 – India
- *[Phintella bifurcilinea](/source/Phintella_bifurcilinea)* (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam (type species)
- *[Phintella brevis](/source/Phintella_brevis)* Wesołowska & [Russell-Smith](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Russell-Smith), 2022 – [Guinea](/source/Guinea), Ivory Coast, [Ghana](/source/Ghana), Uganda
- *[Phintella bunyiae](/source/Phintella_bunyiae)* Barrion & [Litsinger](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/James_Allen_Litsinger), 1995 – [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
- *[Phintella caledoniensis](/source/Phintella_caledoniensis)* Patoleta, 2009 – [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia)
- *[Phintella candramawa](/source/Phintella_candramawa)* Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) (Sumatra)
- *[Phintella castor](/source/Phintella_castor)* Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- *[Phintella castriesiana](/source/Phintella_castriesiana)* (Grube, 1861) – [Canary Islands](/source/Canary_Islands), Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, [Turkey](/source/Turkey), [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus), [Iran](/source/Iran), Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan
- *[Phintella cavaleriei](/source/Phintella_cavaleriei)* ([Schenkel](/source/Ehrenfried_Schenkel-Haas), 1963) – China, Korea
- *[Phintella cholkei](/source/Phintella_cholkei)* Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
- *[Phintella chopardi](/source/Phintella_chopardi)* ([Berland](/source/Lucien_Berland) & [Millot](/source/Jacques_Millot), 1941) – Ivory Coast, Uganda
- *[Phintella chunfen](/source/Phintella_chunfen)* Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China
- *[Phintella clathrata](/source/Phintella_clathrata)* ([Thorell](/source/Tamerlan_Thorell), 1895) – Myanmar
- *[Phintella conradi](/source/Phintella_conradi)* Prószyński & [Deeleman-Reinhold](/source/Christa_L._Deeleman-Reinhold), 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- *[Phintella coonooriensis](/source/Phintella_coonooriensis)* Prószyński, 1992 – India
- *[Phintella daklak](/source/Phintella_daklak)* Hoang, 2023 – Vietnam
- *[Phintella debilis](/source/Phintella_debilis)* (Thorell, 1891) – India to Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia (Java)
- *[Phintella dentis](/source/Phintella_dentis)* Sudhin, Caleb & Sen, 2024 – India
- *[Phintella dhritiae](/source/Phintella_dhritiae)* Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India
- *[Phintella dives](/source/Phintella_dives)* (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- *[Phintella elegans](/source/Phintella_elegans)* [Haddad](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richard_Haddad), Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
- *[Phintella fanjingshan](/source/Phintella_fanjingshan)* Li, Wang, Zhang & Chen, 2019 – China
- *[Phintella fodingensis](/source/Phintella_fodingensis)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Phintella globosa](/source/Phintella_globosa)* Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast, Uganda
- *[Phintella hainani](/source/Phintella_hainani)* Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 – China (Hainan)
- *[Phintella handersoni](/source/Phintella_handersoni)* Sen, Sudhin & Caleb, 2024 – India, China, Vietnam
- *[Phintella hongkan](/source/Phintella_hongkan)* Wang, Gan & Mi, 2024 – China (Hainan)
- *[Phintella incerta](/source/Phintella_incerta)* Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- *[Phintella jaleeli](/source/Phintella_jaleeli)* Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka
- *[Phintella jiugongensis](/source/Phintella_jiugongensis)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Phintella jucunda](/source/Phintella_jucunda)* Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- *[Phintella kaptega](/source/Phintella_kaptega)* Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 – Guinea, Uganda, Kenya
- *[Phintella lajuma](/source/Phintella_lajuma)* Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 – South Africa
- *[Phintella lepidus](/source/Phintella_lepidus)* Cao & Li, 2016 – China
- *[Phintella liae](/source/Phintella_liae)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Phintella linea](/source/Phintella_linea)* ([Karsch](/source/Ferdinand_Karsch), 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- *[Phintella liui](/source/Phintella_liui)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China (Hainan)
- *[Phintella longapophysis](/source/Phintella_longapophysis)* Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
- *[Phintella lucida](/source/Phintella_lucida)* Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia, Kenya
- *[Phintella luna](/source/Phintella_luna)* Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2024 – India
- *[Phintella lunda](/source/Phintella_lunda)* Wesołowska, 2010 – [Angola](/source/Angola)
- *[Phintella macrops](/source/Phintella_macrops)* (Simon, 1901) – India
- *[Phintella mii](/source/Phintella_mii)* Wang & Li, 2020 – China
- *[Phintella minor](/source/Phintella_minor)* ([Lessert](/source/Roger_de_Lessert), 1925) – Guinea, Ivory Coast
- *[Phintella monteithi](/source/Phintella_monteithi)* Żabka, 2012 – [Australia](/source/Australia) (Queensland)
- *[Phintella multimaculata](/source/Phintella_multimaculata)* (Simon, 1901) – Sri Lanka
- *[Phintella nilgirica](/source/Phintella_nilgirica)* Prószyński, 1992 – India
- *[Phintella nilotica](/source/Phintella_nilotica)* Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
- *[Phintella occidentalis](/source/Phintella_occidentalis)* Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
- *[Phintella paludosa](/source/Phintella_paludosa)* Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Mozambique
- *[Phintella panda](/source/Phintella_panda)* Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- *[Phintella parva](/source/Phintella_parva)* (Wesołowska, 1981) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea
- *[Phintella piatensis](/source/Phintella_piatensis)* Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- *[Phintella planiceps](/source/Phintella_planiceps)* Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Caroline Is.
- *[Phintella platnicki](/source/Phintella_platnicki)* Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India
- *[Phintella popovi](/source/Phintella_popovi)* (Prószyński, 1979) – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), China, Korea
- *[Phintella pulcherrima](/source/Phintella_pulcherrima)* Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- *[Phintella pygmaea](/source/Phintella_pygmaea)* (Wesołowska, 1981) – China
- *[Phintella rajbharathi](/source/Phintella_rajbharathi)* Caleb, Sudhin & Sen, 2024 – India
- *[Phintella reinhardti](/source/Phintella_reinhardti)* (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
- *[Phintella sancha](/source/Phintella_sancha)* Cao & Li, 2016 – China, Vietnam
- *[Phintella siginjai](/source/Phintella_siginjai)* Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- *[Phintella suavis](/source/Phintella_suavis)* (Simon, 1886) – [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia)
- *[Phintella suavisoides](/source/Phintella_suavisoides)* Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
- *[Phintella subpanda](/source/Phintella_subpanda)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Phintella sufflava](/source/Phintella_sufflava)* (Jastrzebski, 2009) – [Bhutan](/source/Bhutan)
- *[Phintella suknana](/source/Phintella_suknana)* Prószyński, 1992 – India
- *[Phintella transversa](/source/Phintella_transversa)* Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
- *[Phintella vittata](/source/Phintella_vittata)* ([C. L. Koch](/source/Carl_Ludwig_Koch), 1846) – India, [Nepal](/source/Nepal), Bangladesh, China to Philippines
- *[Phintella wandae](/source/Phintella_wandae)* C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
- *[Phintella wulingensis](/source/Phintella_wulingensis)* Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China
- *[Phintella yi](/source/Phintella_yi)* Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China
- *[Phintella yinae](/source/Phintella_yinae)* Lei & Peng, 2013 – China

## References

1. ["Gen. *Phintella* Strand, 1906"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2885). World Spider Catalog. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2025-10-17.

1. Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). "Japanische Spinnen". *Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft*. **30**: 93–422.

1. Cameron, H. D. & Wijesinghe, D. P. (1993). "Simon's Keys to the Salticid Groups". *Peckhamia*. **3** (1): 1–26.

1. Prószyński, Jerzy (1983). "Position of genus *Phintella* (Araneae: Salticidae)". *Acta Arachnologica*. **31** (2): 43–48. [doi:10.2476/asjaa.31.43](https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.31.43)

1. Maddison, Wayne P. & Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". *Invertebrate Systematics*. **17** (4): 529–549. [doi:10.1071/IS02044](https://doi.org/10.1071/IS02044)

1. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". *The Journal of Arachnology*. **43** (3): 231–292. [doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292](https://doi.org/10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292). [S2CID 85680279](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:85680279)

## External links

- [Photograph of *P. castriesiana*](http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/phintel/cas-hol-ph.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225803/http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/phintel/cas-hol-ph.htm) 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- [Photograph of *Phintella* sp.](http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/phintel/phint-ph.htm)

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