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) | |
Species | |
13, see text |
Freya is a genus of 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.
As of June 2019 [update] it contains thirteen species, found in South America, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama: [1]
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