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Genus: Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Corythalia placata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032914

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela?

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (22679) - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f 4j (22679I-II) - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Dynamius placatus Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 339, pl. 25: f. 11, pl. 26: f. 2 (Df; m f. 11a-c see Corythalia waleckii) Original description

Corythalia placata Petrunkevitch, 1911: 618

Corythalia placata Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020: 37, f. 18A-E, 57H, 61I, 64L, 68H, 72D, 76D (Dm, f)

References

Bayer, S., Höfer, H. & Metzner, H. (2020). Revision of the genus Corythalia C.L. Koch, 1850, part 1: diagnosis and new species from South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4806(1): 1-144. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4806.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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
2020-10-29	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Corythalia waleckii (Taczanowski, 1871)
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020
2020-07-01	Species distribution update	Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020	Old value