Freya (spider)
Freya | |
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Male Freya decorata in Ecuador | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Freya C. L. Koch, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
F. decorata (C. L. Koch, 1846)
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Species | |
13, see text |
Freya is a
jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2] The name is derived from Freya, the fertility goddess of Norse mythology
.
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains thirteen species, found in South America, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama:[1]
- Freya atures Galiano, 2001 – Venezuela
- Freya bicavata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
- Freya chapare Galiano, 2001 – Bolivia, Brazil
- Freya decorata (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Northern South America
- Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
- Freya dureti Galiano, 2001 – Brazil
- Freya justina Banks, 1929 – Panama
- Freya nigrotaeniata (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Paraguay, Argentina
- Freya petrunkevitchi Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Freya prominens (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
- Freya regia (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala
- Freya rubiginosa (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil
- Freya rufohirta (Simon, 1902) – Brazil
References
- ^ doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- OCLC 18279999.
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