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Genus: Akela G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Akela charlottae G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032258

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Described:

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Distribution: Guatemala, Panama

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

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (531) - (Ruiz et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Akela charlottae Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 95, pl. 7, f. 7 (Dm) Original description

Akela charlottae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 299, pl. 29, f. 8 (m)

Akela charlottae Simon, 1901a: 568, f. 688 (m)

Freya striata Chickering, 1946: 188, f. 160-162 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056830]

Akela charlottae Galiano, 1989a: 49, f. 1-4 (mf, S of Freya striata)

Akela charlottae Edwards, 2015: 17, f. 1A-I (mf)

Akela charlottae Ruiz et al., 2026: 196, f. 13A-D, 24A (f, f. 13A-E "cf." from Brazil)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1989a). Note on the genera Admestina and Akela (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 49-50. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida. Araneidea and Opiliones. Vol. II. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.730 [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S., Marta, K. S., Hagopián, D. & Bustamante, A. A. (2026). Taxonomic revision of Akela Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina), with insights into secondary spermathecae in Salticidae and coupling pocket homology in Freyina. Zoologischer Anzeiger 323: 193-218. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2026.05.011 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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	Comment
2026-06-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Ruiz et al., 2026
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015