World Spider Catalog

Genus: Fritzia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Fritzia muelleri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033501

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033501

Described:

Distribution: Panama, Colombia, Trinidad, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2f (AR 17004-17005) - (Garrido-Trujillo et al., 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Fritzia muelleri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879b: 120 (Df) Original description

Fritzia muelleri Galiano, 1965a: 129, f. 1-4 (f)

Fritzia muelleri Prószyński, 2017b: 69, f. 31I (f)

Fritzia muelleri Garrido-Trujillo et al., 2025b: 102, f. 1a-e, 2a-f, 3a-g, 4a-f, h-l (Dm, f; f. 4a-b is a subadult m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1965a). Algunas especies de Salticidae (Araneae) nuevas para la Argentina. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 25: 129-133. -- Show included taxa

Garrido-Trujillo, A., Díaz-Quirós, D., Ceballos, J., Santos-Murgas, A. & Añino, Y. (2025b). New distribution record and first description of the male Fritzia muelleri (Araneae: Salticidae) from Panama. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 101-106. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1879b). On a new genus and species of spiders of the family Salticides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47(1): 119-121. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02632.x -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-02-05	Taxonomic reference update		Old value
2026-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Garrido-Trujillo et al., 2025b
2026-01-09	Species distribution update	Garrido-Trujillo et al., 2025b	Old value
2026-01-09	Species updated	Garrido-Trujillo et al., 2025b	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b