Porius

For the novel by John Cowper Powys, see Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages.

Porius is a genus of Papuan jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1892.^[2] As of August 2019^[update] it contains only two species, found only in Papua New Guinea: P. decempunctatus and P. papuanus.^[1]

Porius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Porius Thorell, 1892[1]
Type species
P. papuanus (Thorell, 1881)
Species
P. decempunctatus (Szombathy, 1915) – New Guinea P. papuanus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea