Freya (spider)

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Freya
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Male Freya decorata in Ecuador
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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.

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found in South America, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Freya C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Vol. 5. Nürnberg: J. L. Lotzbeck. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561. OCLC   18279999.