Phausina

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Phausina

| authority = Simon, 1902

| type_species = P. flavofrenata

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4, see text

}}

Phausina is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=363–406| volume=46| author-link=Eugène Simon}}

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 {{convert|5|mm}} long{{cite book| last1=Murphy| first1=Frances| last2=Murphy| first2=John| year=2000| publisher=Malaysian Nature Society| title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia| page=286}}

Species

{{as of|2019|08}} it contains four species, found only in Asia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Phausina Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-10| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2880| doi=10.24436/2}}

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