Phanias (spider)

Short description: Genus of spiders

Phanias

Male Phanias albeolus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Phanias
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901[1]
Type species
P. flavostriatus

F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

Species

11, see text

Phanias is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. They are similar to members of Marpissa, but have three pairs of spines beneath the first tibia.[2]

## Species

(As of August 2019) it contains eleven species, found only in Mexico, the United States , and El Salvador:[1]

* Phanias albeolus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941) – USA
* Phanias concoloratus (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
* Phanias dominatus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941) – USA
* Phanias flavostriatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (type) – Mexico
* Phanias furcifer (Gertsch, 1936) – USA
* Phanias furcillatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
* Phanias harfordi (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA
* Phanias monticola (Banks, 1895) – USA
* Phanias neomexicanus (Banks, 1901) – USA
* Phanias salvadorensis Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
* Phanias watonus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941) – USA

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Phanias F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2876. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
2. ↑ Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology

## External links

* Pictures of P. watonus

Wikidata ☰ Q493463 entry

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