Jump to content

Phausina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Peter coxhead (talk | contribs) at 09:18, 10 September 2020 (Removing from Category:Spiders described in 1902 only for species – subcategory of "Species described in 1902" using Cat-a-lot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Phausina
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Phausina Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
  3. ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society. p. 286.