Freya (spider)

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.

Freya
Male Freya decorata in Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Freya
C. L. Koch, 1850[1]
Type species
F. decorata
(C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species

13, see text

Species

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

References

  1. "Gen. Freya C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Heft 5, pp. . <a href='https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39561'>doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561</a>. pp. 1–77.


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