Mintonia Explained

Mintonia is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.^[1]

Species

it contains ten species, found in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia:^[2]

• Mintonia breviramis Wanless, 1984 – Borneo
• Mintonia caliginosa Wanless, 1987 – Borneo
• Mintonia ignota Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Thailand
• Mintonia mackiei Wanless, 1984 – Borneo
• Mintonia melinauensis Wanless, 1984 – Borneo
• Mintonia nubilis Wanless, 1984 – Borneo
• Mintonia protuberans Wanless, 1984 – Singapore
• Mintonia ramipalpis (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
• Mintonia silvicola Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
• Mintonia tauricornis Wanless, 1984 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)

Notes and References

1. Wanless. F. R.. 1984. A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 135–205. 46. 10.5962/bhl.part.15964.
2. Gen. Mintonia Wanless, 1984. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-08-06. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.