Proszynskia
| Proszynskia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Proszynskia Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 |
| Type species | |
| Viciria diatreta (Simon, 1902)
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| Species | |
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Proszynskia is a small genus of south Asian jumping spiders erected by N. Kanesharatnam and Benjamin in 2019 after a molecular phylogenetic study of south Asian spiders showed the relationship between two species previously belonging to Marpissa and Phintella. They are large for jumping spiders, growing up to 7 to 9 millimetres (0.28 to 0.35 in) long. The thin abdomen has a yellow stripe between two black stripes.
The genus is named after Jerzy Prószyński, a major contributor to the knowledge of jumping spiders, and as of April 2022 it contains only two species: P. anusuae and P. diatreta. The single most likely cladogram shows that Phintelloides is sister to Phintella, with Proszynskia sister to both:
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