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

Cotinusa trifasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1943)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033005

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Osericta trifasciata Mello-Leitão, 1943, (41783); 1 m (survived the fire 2018) -
Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (16720) of Balmaceda tristis - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Osericta trifasciata Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 227, f. 54 (Dm) Original description

Balmaceda tristis Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 278, f. 67 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064980]

Cotinusa trifasciata Galiano, 1963b: 2, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (m, T from Osericta, S of Balmaceda tristis)

Cotinusa trifasciata Rubio & Baigorria, 2016: 273, f. 4j-l, 5m-n (m)

Cotinusa trifasciata Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 97, f. 38A, 59, 60A-C, 61 (m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1963b). Nota sobre arañas del grupo Marpisseae (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 24: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- Show included taxa

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. (2016). New species and the first known male of the jumping spider Ceriomura Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Gophoini) with the faunistic revision of gophoines from Misiones, Argentina. Zoology and Ecology 26(4): 265-274. doi: 10.1080/21658005.2016.1199502 -- 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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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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2016-10-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio & Baigorria, 2016
2016-10-07	Species distribution update	Rubio & Baigorria, 2016	Old value