Phintella is a genus of jumping spiders found in Eurasia, Africa, and some islands in the western Pacific. It includes 59 species.
Taxonomy The genus Phintella was circumscribed in 1906 by W. Bösenberg and Embrik Strand. The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles.
The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus. There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira, Chrysilla, Euophrys, Icius, Jotus and Telamonia. Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera Helvetia and Menemerus. It is a member of the tribe Heliophaninae, renamed Chrysillini by Wayne Maddison in 2015. Chrysillines are monophyletic. The tribe is ubiquitous across most of the continents of the world. It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida. In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name Chrysillines in the supergroup Chrysilloida.
Species
, this genus includes 88 species:
Phintella abnormis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan Phintella accentifera (Simon, 1901) – India Phintella aequipeiformis Żabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam Phintella aequipes (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – Ivory Coast, Ghama, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa Phintella africana Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia Phintella albopatella (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – Myanmar Phintella arcuata Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China Phintella arenicolor (Grube, 1861) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan Phintella argentea Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka Phintella argenteola (Simon, 1903) – Vietnam Phintella assamica Prószyński, 1992 – India, Laos Phintella australis (Simon, 1902) – South Africa Phintella banna Wang & Li, 2020 – China Phintella bella Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Phintella bidentata Biswas, 2025 – Bangladesh Phintella bifurcata Prószyński, 1992 – India Phintella bifurcilinea (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam (type species) Phintella brevis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda Phintella bunyiae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines Phintella caledoniensis Patoleta, 2009 – New Caledonia Phintella candramawa Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Phintella castor Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Phintella castriesiana (Grube, 1861) – Canary Islands, Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan Phintella cavaleriei (Schenkel, 1963) – China, Korea Phintella cholkei Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India Phintella chopardi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Uganda Phintella chunfen Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China Phintella clathrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar Phintella conradi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Phintella coonooriensis Prószyński, 1992 – India Phintella daklak Hoang, 2023 – Vietnam Phintella debilis (Thorell, 1891) – India to Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia (Java) Phintella dentis Sudhin, Caleb & Sen, 2024 – India Phintella dhritiae Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India Phintella dives (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra) Phintella elegans Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique Phintella fanjingshan Li, Wang, Zhang & Chen, 2019 – China Phintella fodingensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China Phintella globosa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast, Uganda Phintella hainani Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 – China (Hainan) Phintella handersoni Sen, Sudhin & Caleb, 2024 – India, China, Vietnam Phintella hongkan Wang, Gan & Mi, 2024 – China (Hainan) Phintella incerta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania Phintella jaleeli Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 – Sri Lanka Phintella jiugongensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China Phintella jucunda Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Phintella kaptega Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 – Guinea, Uganda, Kenya Phintella lajuma Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 – South Africa Phintella lepidus Cao & Li, 2016 – China Phintella liae C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China Phintella linea (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan Phintella liui C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China (Hainan) Phintella longapophysis Lei & Peng, 2013 – China Phintella lucida Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia, Kenya Phintella luna Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2024 – India Phintella lunda Wesołowska, 2010 – Angola Phintella macrops (Simon, 1901) – India Phintella mii Wang & Li, 2020 – China Phintella minor (Lessert, 1925) – Guinea, Ivory Coast Phintella monteithi Żabka, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Phintella multimaculata (Simon, 1901) – Sri Lanka Phintella nilgirica Prószyński, 1992 – India Phintella nilotica Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Phintella occidentalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast Phintella paludosa Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Mozambique Phintella panda Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China Phintella parva (Wesołowska, 1981) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea Phintella piatensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines Phintella planiceps Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Caroline Is. Phintella platnicki Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India Phintella popovi (Prószyński, 1979) – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), China, Korea Phintella pulcherrima Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China Phintella pygmaea (Wesołowska, 1981) – China Phintella rajbharathi Caleb, Sudhin & Sen, 2024 – India Phintella reinhardti (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.) Phintella sancha Cao & Li, 2016 – China, Vietnam Phintella siginjai Dhiya'ulhaq, 2025 – Indonesia (Sumatra) Phintella suavis (Simon, 1886) – Malaysia Phintella suavisoides Lei & Peng, 2013 – China Phintella subpanda C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China Phintella sufflava (Jastrzebski, 2009) – Bhutan Phintella suknana Prószyński, 1992 – India Phintella transversa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast Phintella vittata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China to Philippines Phintella wandae C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China Phintella wulingensis Huang, Wang & Peng, 2015 – China Phintella yi Yang, Wang & Zhang, 2024 – China Phintella yinae Lei & Peng, 2013 – China
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Photograph of P. castriesiana Photograph of Phintella sp.