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

Cotinusa distincta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1888)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032987

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico to Peru

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

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Taxonomic References

Sadala distincta Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 53, pl. 1, f. 70, pl. 6, f. 76 (Dm) Original description

Sadala distincta Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 132, pl. 13, f. 4 (m)

Cotinusa distincta Simon, 1901a: 459

Cotinusa distincta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 299, pl. 29, f. 12 (m)

Cotinusa distincta Maddison, 1987: 105, f. 13-14

Cotinusa distincta Prószyński, 2017b: 24, f. 10D (m)

References

Maddison, W. (1987). Marchena and other jumping spiders with an apparent leg-carapace stridulatory mechanism (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae and Thiodinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7(4): 101-106. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b