Phintella globosa

Phintella globosa was first described in 2022 by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith.{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2023|title=Phintella globosa Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2022|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url= https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/60709/Phintella_globosa|version=24.0|access-date=5 June 2023}} The species is one of more than 500 described by Wesołowska.{{sfn|Wiśniewski|2020|page=6}} It was allocated to the genus Phintella, raised in 1906 by Embrik Strand and W. Bösenberg.{{sfn|Prószyński|1983b|page=6}} The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles.{{sfn|Bösenberg|Strand|1906|page=333}} The species name is the Latin for spherical, and relates to the shape of the spermathecae.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=77}} The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus.{{sfn|Cameron|Wijesinghe|1993|page=16}} There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira, Chrysilla, Euophrys, Icius, Jotus and Telamonia.{{sfn|Prószyński|1983a|page=43}} 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.{{sfn|Maddison|Hedin|2003|page=541}}{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=231}} In 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with 32 other genera of jumping spiders under the name Chrysillines in the supergroup Chrysilloida.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|pages=10, 13, 17}}

Phintella globosa is a small spider. The female has a cephalothorax that typically has a length of {{convert|2.1|mm|in|abbr=on}} and a width of {{convert|1.6|mm|in|abbr=on}}. 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 {{convert|2.0|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|1,5|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=77}} It is a yellow oval with a grey swirly pattern.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=78}} 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.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=77}} The copulatory openings are hidden underneath a layer of sclerite. The seminal ducts are thin leading to spherical spermathecae.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=78}} Superficially, the copulatory organs are similar to the related Phintella lucida but the seminal ducts are thinner and the spermathecae are much larger.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=77}} The male has not been described.

Phintella globosa is endemic to Ivory Coast. The female holotype was found in Cavally Forest in 1975.{{sfn|Wesołowska|Russell-Smith|2022|page=77}}

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Category:Fauna of Ivory Coast

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders described in 2022

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska