Porius

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{For|the novel by John Cowper Powys|Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Porius

| authority = Thorell, 1892

| type_species = P. papuanus

| type_species_authority = (Thorell, 1881)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| P. decempunctatus|(Szombathy, 1915) – New Guinea

| P. papuanus|(Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea}}

}}

Porius is a genus of Papuan jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1892.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1892| title=Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 2| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=1–490| volume=31| author-link=Tamerlan Thorell}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only two species, found only in Papua New Guinea: P. decempunctatus and P. papuanus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Porius Thorell, 1892| 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/2902| doi=10.24436/2}}