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

Corythalia ursina (Mello-Leitão, 1940)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032927

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (type no. 482) - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Capidava ursina Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 185, f. 18 (Dm) Original description

Corythalia ursina Galiano, 1962c: 16, f. 11-12 (Tm from Capidava)

Corythalia ursina Prószyński, 1976: 153, f. 205 (m)

Corythalia ursina Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020: 89, f. 42A-B (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 (1940c). Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 175-197. -- 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	New taxonomic reference entry	Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020