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

Corythalia tropica (Mello-Leitão, 1939)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032926

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Described:

Distribution: Venezuela

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) m (ARAN-01202a) - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Evarcha tropica Mello-Leitão, 1939e: 85, f. 74-75 (Dm) Original description

Corythalia tropica Galiano, 1962c: 16, f. 9-10 (m, T from Evarcha, S of Corythalia fulgipedia, rejected by Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020: 68)

Corythalia tropica Prószyński, 1976: 153, f. 200 (m)

Corythalia tropica Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020: 64, f. 31A-B, 58G, 65I, 69D (m)

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

Galiano, M. E. (1962c). Nota sobre el género Corythalia Koch, 1850. Descripción de una nueva especie (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23: 15-20. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1939e). Araignées américaines du Musee d'histoire naturelle de Bâle. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 46(2): 43-93. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117928 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- 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
2020-07-01	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Corythalia fulgipedia Crane, 1948
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020