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

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

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032928

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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 m - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 3m - (Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Escambia valida Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 335, pl. 25, f. 13, pl. 26, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Corythalia valida Petrunkevitch, 1911: 618

Corythalia valida Prószyński, 1976: 153, f. 204, 209 (mf)

Corythalia valida Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020: 98, f. 3E, 48A-F, 60C, 63E, 67B, 70F, 74C, 78E (mf)

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

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