Type material: NZC-ZSI 6944/18; male holotype; India, Manipur, exact locality and collector unknown (specimen found along with other spider specimens in the Manipur State survey collections without any specific label).

Etymology: The species is named after the Indian state of Manipur where the holotype was collected. The epithet is a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis: This species is similar to other congeners in its general morphology and color pattern but can be clearly distinguished by the morphology of its male copulatory organs: the palp with a shorter embolus (comparably shorter than in other congeners but longer than in P. versicolor) and an elongated ALT, reaching past the distal margin of the tegulum (Figs 5-8). The palp is similar to that of P. brunne Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 but can be differentiated by the presence of a TB and by the RTA tip being gently curved (TB absent and hook-shaped RTA in P. brunne).

Description: Male holotype. Total length 4.48; carapace 1.92 long, 1.56 wide; abdomen 2.56 long, 1.10 wide. Carapace brown, clothed with a small patch of whitish setae between and behind AMEs. Lateral margins of carapace each covered with a broad band of white hairs. Posterior eyes surrounded by black patches (Fig. 1). AMEs lined by dense short fringe of orange setae anteriorly; clypeus brownish, with a small patch of white scales in the middle (Fig. 2). Eye measurements: AME 0.45, ALE 0.22, PME 0.05, PLE 0.21, AER 1.31, PER 1.23, EFL 0.94. Clypeus height 0.18. Sternum yellowish. Chelicerae reddish brown, with two teeth on promargin and one tooth on retromargin; labium and maxillae yellowish brown (Fig. 3). Leg I more robust than other legs and dark brown. Legs II to IV brownish yellow (Fig. 1). Leg measurements: I 4.72 (1.37, 0.76, 1.07, 1.01, 0.51); II 3.60 (1.08, 0.57, 0.72, 0.83, 0.40); III 4.34 (1.32, 0.58, 0.87, 1.07, 0.50); IV 4.70 (1.45, 0.57, 0.99, 1.14, 0.55). Leg formula: 1432. Spination of legs: femora I 0700, II 0900, III 0900, IV 0700; patellae I-IV 0010; tibiae I 2036, II 2036, III 3034, IV 3034; metatarsi I 1014, II 2024, III 2024, IV 2024; tarsi I-IV 0000. Abdomen long and narrow, yellowish, with a brownish median band fading posteriorly; venter yellowish, with mid-longitudinal discontinuous brown band. Spinnerets brownish yellow (Fig. 1). Palps yellowish brown, covered with pale hairs. Embolus slender, medium-sized, wavy, bent at the tip and pointing retrolaterad; apical portion of bulbus extending beyond distal margin of tegulum. Bulbus longer than wide. Broad sperm duct visible in distal portion of tegulum. Tegulum with small posterior lobe and tegular bump. RTA broad at base, tapering toward tip, gently curving ventrad (Figs 4-8).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution: India (Manipur) (Fig. 9).

Marpissa singhi Monga, Singh & Sadana, 1989: 592, figs 1-2.

Remarks: This species was described from the female holotype from the Kalesar Reserve forest in the Haryana State. Though the authors mentioned that the type specimen will be deposited in NZC-ZSI, it has not yet arrived there and therefore is not yet available for re-examination. Since the original description and illustrations are poor, details of genital morphology remain unknown. The identity of this species thus remains unclear until further conspecific specimens are collected at the type locality. This species does not belong in Marpissa since no true Marpissa is yet reported in India. Therefore, a provisional placement in Phintella C.L. Koch, 1846, based on the general body form and genital morphology, was recently proposed by Prószyński & Caleb (2015). The species, however, more closely resembles members of the genus Phintelloides. The abdomen is devoid of any stripe or pattern like in P. flavoviri Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 and P. orbisa Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019, and the epigyne moreover strongly resembles that of P. orbisa (Monga, Singh & Sadana, 1989: figs 1, 2 cf. Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019: figs 12A, E, G, 13A). It is therefore reasonable to transfer the species to Phintelloides.

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.

Plexippus versicolor C.L. Koch, 1846: 103, fig. 1165.

Chrysilla versicolor Prószyński, 1973: 98, figs 1-7; Żabka, 1985: 211, figs 83-96.

Phintelloides versicolor Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019: 22.

For a complete list of taxonomic references see the World Spider Catalog (2020).

Specimens examined: NZC-ZSI 6945/18; 2 males, 2 females; west bank of Lacro River, 1525 m a.s.l., Moreh, Manipur, India; 13.IV.1992; leg. A.K. Hazra & party. – NZC-ZSI 7035/18; 1 female; Rain Forest Research Institute campus, 26.7824N, 94.2941E, 97 m a.s.l., Jorhat, Assam, India; 08.III.2019; leg. A. Rameshkumar. – NZC-ZSI 1542/17; 3 males, 2 females; Tharrawaddy, Myanmar (= Burma); leg. Oates; det. Thorell.

Distribution: India (new record), Myanmar (new record), China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra). Introduced to USA (Hawaii) (World Spider Catalog, 2020).