Corythalia

Corythalia Temporal range: Neogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850 [1]
Type species
C. latipes (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species
see text
Synonyms [1]
Dinattus Bryant, 1943 [2] DynamiusSimon, 1888 EscambiaPeckham & Peckham, 1896 MakthaliaBadcock, 1932 [3] Taeoma Mello-Leitão, 1939 [4]

Corythalia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. ^[5] Species in this genus are found from Mexico to Argentina, with C. opima reaching into the United States. ^[1]

Species

As of December 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes ninety species: ^[1]

• Corythalia alacris (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Guatemala
• Corythalia albicincta (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Central America
• Corythalia antepagmenti Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia argentinensis Galiano, 1962 – Argentina
• Corythalia bicincta Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Corythalia binotata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Corythalia blanda (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
• Corythalia bonairensis (van Hasselt, 1887) – Bonaire
• Corythalia brevispina (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala, Colombia
• Corythalia broccai Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
• Corythalia bromelicola Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
• Corythalia bryantae Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Corythalia chalcea Crane, 1948 – Venezuela
• Corythalia chickeringi Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
• Corythalia cincta (Badcock, 1932) – Paraguay
• Corythalia circumcincta (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Corythalia circumflexa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Venezuela
• Corythalia clara Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
• Corythalia concinna Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia conferta Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Corythalia conformans Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
• Corythalia conspecta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama
• Corythalia coronai Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
• Corythalia cristata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Corythalia dakryodes Bayer, 2020 – Colombia, Ecuador
• Corythalia decora (Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
• Corythalia diffusa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
• Corythalia drepane Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia drepanopsis Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia electa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Colombia
• Corythalia erebus (Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
• Corythalia excavata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Corythalia fimbriata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Corythalia flagrans Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia flavida (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala
• Corythalia foelixi Bayer, 2020 – Guyana, French Guiana
• Corythalia fragilis Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia fulgipedia Crane, 1948 – Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
• Corythalia gasnieri Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia grata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Corythalia hadzji Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Corythalia hamulifera Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
• Corythalia heros (Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
• Corythalia insularis Ruiz, Brescovit & Freitas, 2007 – Brazil (Fernando de Noronha Islands)
• Corythalia iridescens Petrunkevitch, 1926 – Virgin Islands
• Corythalia latior Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Bolivia
• Corythalia latipes (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil (type species)
• Corythalia lineata Bayer, 2020 – Guyana
• Corythalia longiducta Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia luctuosa Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana, Brazil
• Corythalia metallica (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894) – St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Corythalia minor (Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
• Corythalia modesta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Corythalia murcida (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Central America
• Corythalia neglecta Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
• Corythalia nigriventer (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Panama
• Corythalia nigropicta (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Central America
• Corythalia noda (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peru
• Corythalia obsoleta Banks, 1929 – Panama
• Corythalia opima (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885) – United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama
• Corythalia panamana Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Corythalia parva (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Corythalia parvula (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
• Corythalia peblique Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
• Corythalia penicillata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Guatemala
• Corythalia pequii Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022 – Brazil
• Corythalia placata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela?
• Corythalia porphyra Brüning & Cutler, 1995 – Costa Rica
• Corythalia protensa Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia pulchra Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Corythalia quadriguttata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
• Corythalia ricti Bayer, 2020 – Guyana
• Corythalia roeweri Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
• Corythalia rugosa Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
• Corythalia scutellaris Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
• Corythalia sellata Simon, 1901 – presumably Neotropics/South America
• Corythalia spiralis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
• Corythalia spirorbis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Corythalia sulphurea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Corythalia tribulosa Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Colombia
• Corythalia tristriata Bryant, 1942 – Puerto Rico
• Corythalia trochophora Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
• Corythalia tropica (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Venezuela
• Corythalia ursina (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
• Corythalia valida (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Corythalia verhaaghi Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
• Corythalia vervloeti Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Ecuador, Brazil
• Corythalia voluta (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – El Salvador, Panama
• Corythalia waleckii (Taczanowski, 1871) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, French Guiana
• Corythalia xanthopa Crane, 1948 – Venezuela

References

1. "Gen. Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-12-10.
2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 15. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID   25947489.
3. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1939). "Araignées américaines du Musee d'histoire naturelle de Bâle". Revue suisse de Zoologie . 46: 84. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117928.
4. Galiano, M. E. (1962). "Nota sobre el género Corythalia Koch, 1850. Descripción de una nueva especie (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 23: 15.
5. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg,C.H. Zeh. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Corythalia at iNaturalist
• Key to species of the genus Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)