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Genus: Cotinusa Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cotinusa albescens Mello-Leitão, 1945

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032981

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Described:

Distribution: Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina f (16750) - (Galiano, 1980b)
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Cotinusa albescens Mello-Leitão, 1945, (02173); 1 f (survived the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Cotinusa albescens Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 280, f. 70 (Df) Original description

Cotinusa albescens Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 101, f. 65 (f)

References

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.) 4(Zoología 29): 213-302. -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018