Phintella globosa is a species of jumping spider in the genus Phintella that lives in Ivory Coast. First described by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2022, the spider is small, with a cephalothorax typically 2.1 mm (0.083 in) long and an abdomen 2.0 mm (0.079 in) long. Only the female has been described. The carapace is dark brown and the abdomen yellow. Although similar to the related Phintella lucida, the copulatory organs are distinctive. The spermathecae are particularly large and spherical, which is recalled in the species name.
| Phintella globosa | |
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| The related male Phintella versicolor | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Phintella |
| Species: | P. globosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Phintella globosa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
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Taxonomy
editPhintella globosa was first described in 2022 by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith.[1] The species is one of more than 500 described by Wesołowska.[2] It was allocated to the genus Phintella, raised in 1906 by Embrik Strand and W. Bösenberg.[3] The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles.[4] The species name is the Latin for spherical, and relates to the shape of the spermathecae.[5] The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus.[6] There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira, Chrysilla, Euophrys, Icius, Jotus and Telamonia.[7] Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera Helvetia and Menemerus and is classified in the tribe Chrysillini, named after the genus Chrysilla.[8][9] In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name Chrysillines in the supergroup Chrysilloida.[10]
Description
editPhintella globosa is a small spider. The female has a cephalothorax that typically has a length of 2.1 mm (0.083 in) and a width of 1.6 mm (0.063 in). It has a dark brown sloping carapace marked by a wide belt of white hairs towards the back and a black eye field. The clypeus is low and dark with white hairs under the forward eyes. The Chelicerae are long and brown, with two small teeth and the front and one at the back. The remainder of the mouthparts are lighter. The abdomen is typically 2.0 mm (0.079 in) long and 15 mm (0.59 in) wide.[5] It is a yellow oval with a grey swirly pattern.[11] The underside is yellow with a wide grey stripe. The spinnerets are yellow. The legs are also yellow, with brown hairs and spines. The rearmost legs and the longest.[5] The copulatory openings are hidden underneath a layer of sclerite. The seminal ducts are thin leading to spherical spermathecae.[11] Superficially, the copulatory organs are similar to the related Phintella lucida but the seminal ducts are thinner and the spermathecae are much larger.[5] The male has not been described.[1]
Distribution
editPhintella globosa is endemic to Ivory Coast.[1] The female holotype was found in Cavally Forest in 1975.[5]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c World Spider Catalog (2023). "Phintella globosa Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2022". World Spider Catalog. 24.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Wiśniewski 2020, p. 6.
- ^ Prószyński 1983b, p. 6.
- ^ Bösenberg & Strand 1906, p. 333.
- ^ a b c d e Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2022, p. 77.
- ^ Cameron & Wijesinghe 1993, p. 16.
- ^ Prószyński 1983a, p. 43.
- ^ Maddison & Hedin 2003, p. 541.
- ^ Maddison 2015, p. 231.
- ^ Prószyński 2017, pp. 10, 13, 17.
- ^ a b Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2022, p. 78.
Bibliography
edit- Bösenberg, W.; Strand, Embrik (1906). "Japanische Spinnen" [Japanese Spiders]. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (in German). 30: 93–422.
- Cameron, H. D.; Wijesinghe, D. P. (1993). "Simon's Keys to the Salticid Groups". Peckhamia. 3 (1): 1–26.
- 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. S2CID 85680279.
- Maddison, Wayne P.; Hedin, Marshal C. (2003). "Jumping spider phylogeny (Araneae: Salticidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 17 (4): 529–549. doi:10.1071/IS02044.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (1983a). "Position of genus Phintella (Araneae: Salticidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 31 (2): 43–48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.31.43. ISSN 1880-7852.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (1983b). "Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest". Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 44: 283–297.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
- Wesołowska, Wanda; Russell-Smith, Anthony (2022). "Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 841: 1–143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943.
- Wiśniewski, Konrad (2020). "Over 40 years with jumping spiders: on the 70th birthday of Wanda Wesołowska". Zootaxa. 4899 (1): 5–14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.3.