| Phausina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Phausina Simon, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. flavofrenata Simon, 1902 | |
| Species | |
|
4, see text | |
Phausina is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2]
Male P. leucopogon have a black carapace, red hairs surrounding a broad band of yellow hairs on the head, and reddish hairs surrounding a narrow median stripe of whitish hairs on the thorax with a wavy whitish stripe on the side. The abdomen is black-ish with red pubescence and a median white and yellow band. The first two pairs of legs are dark, the others yellowish with rings. They are 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long[3]
Species
As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Phausina bivittata Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Phausina flavofrenata Simon, 1902 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Phausina guttipes Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Phausina leucopogon Simon, 1905 – Indonesia (Java)
References
- 1 2 "Gen. Phausina Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
- ↑ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society. p. 286.
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