- Phausina
Taxobox
name = "Phausina"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
subfamilia =Hasariinae
tribus =Hasariini
genus = "Phausina"
genus_authority = Simon, 1902
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Phausina
diversity = 4 species
type_species = "Phausina flavofrenata "
type_species_authority = Simon, 1902
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text"Phausina" is a
spider genus of theSalticidae family (jumping spiders). All species except one, which is endemic toJava , occur only onSri Lanka .The Javanese species, "P. leucopogon", is 5 mm long in males. It has a black carapace with 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. On the sides there is a wavy whitish stripe. The longish abdomen is blackish with red pubescence, and a median white and yellow band. The first two pairs of legs are dark, the others yellowish with rings. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 286]
pecies
* "
Phausina bivittata " Simon, 1902 —Sri Lanka
* "Phausina flavofrenata " Simon, 1902 — Sri Lanka
* "Phausina guttipes " Simon, 1902 — Sri Lanka
* "Phausina leucopogon " Simon, 1905 —Java Footnotes
References
* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".External links
* Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/phausina/flavof.htm Drawings of the palp of "P. flavofrenata"]
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