Portia Karsch, 1878

Zhang, J. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2005, Four New And One Newly Recorded Species Of The Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae & Spartaeinae) From (Sub) Tropical China, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2), pp. 221-229 : 226

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4619118
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4618963
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE670A-F557-6550-9617-929EFA27FE38
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Portia Karsch, 1878
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Portia Karsch, 1878 View in CoL View at ENA

Portia Karsch, 1878: 774 View in CoL (Type species: Portia schultzi Karsch, 1878 View in CoL , by original designation and monotypy); Wanless, 1978: 84; 1984a: 191; Peng & Li, 2002b: 255.

Diagnosis. – Spiders of this genus can be easily distinguished from others of the subfamily Spartaeinae by the presence of developed tufts on dorsal abdomen, fan-like fringes on legs, and dorsal flange on male palpal cymbium.

Remarks. – A total of 16 species have been reported ( Platnick, 2005), being distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopia regions.