Phintelloides undulata ( Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015 ) Caleb & Acharya, 2020

Caleb, John T. D. & Acharya, Shelley, 2020, Jumping spiders of the genus Phintelloides from India, with the description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini), Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 95-100 : 96

Phintelloides undulata ( Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015) comb. nov.

Cosmophasis undulata Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015: 97 , figs 1-10.

Remarks: This species was described from Maharashtra State, from the male holotype only. It was originally placed in Cosmophasis due to resemblance in palp morphology. However, the general body color pattern is clearly different, resembling that of a few members previously placed in Phintella . We propose to place this species in the recently erected genus Phintelloides since it shares a synapomorphic character, i.e. the presence of a short white moustache on the clypeus, along with other characters such as a pale white band behind the anterior eye row, abdomen with a yellowish brown median band and two lateral whitish bands, and the palp with a comparably longer, more slender embolus, the tegulum with a small posterior lobe and a tegular bump, the RTA broader at its base and narrowing apically, with a hook-shaped tip (see Caleb & Karthikeyani, 2015: figs 1, 3, 6, 9). Thus we are convinced that its transfer to Phintelloides is fully justified.