| Frigga | |
|---|---|
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| Frigga coronigera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850[1] |
| Type species | |
| F. coronigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) | |
| Species | |
|
10, see text | |
Frigga is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2] The name is derived from Frigga, a Norse goddess.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found in South America, Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, and on the Polynesian Islands:[1]
- Frigga coronigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Brazil
- Frigga crocuta (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Is., Australia (Queensland), French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is.)
- Frigga finitima Galiano, 1979 – Bolivia, Argentina
- Frigga flava (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala
- Frigga kessleri (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana
- Frigga opulenta Galiano, 1979 – Ecuador, Peru
- Frigga pratensis (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Mexico to Colombia
- Frigga quintensis (Tullgren, 1905) – Argentina, Brazil
- Frigga rufa (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana, Brazil
- Frigga simoni (Berland, 1913) – Ecuador
Gallery
Female Frigga quintensis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Male Frigga crocuta in Puerto Villamil, Ecuador
References
- 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ↑ Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.
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