Phintella Strand, in Boesenberg & Strand, 1906

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Genus Phintella Strand, in Boesenberg & Strand, 1906

Type species.

Telamonia bifurcilinea Bösenberg & Strand, 1906.

Diagnosis.

Phintella are usually small to medium (3-6 mm in length). Some species are covered with metallic iridescent scales. They are characterised by relatively high cephalothorax with distinctive posterior slope, unidentate chelicerae, tegulum with lobe and bump about 90°clockwise from the base of the embolus, embolus sets apically, usually short, pointed or furcate, palpal tibia with one or more apophyses. Female genitalia simple with rounded spermathecae in most species, insemination ducts of different length, usually not twisted ( Żabka 2012).