Poessa

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Poessa argenteofrenata

| authority = Simon, 1902

| parent_authority = Simon, 1902

}}

Poessa is a monotypic genus of Malagasy jumping spiders containing the single species, Poessa argenteofrenata. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902,{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=389–421| volume=71| author-link=Eugène_Simon}} and is only found on Madagascar.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Poessa Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2899| doi=10.24436/2}}