World Spider Catalog

Genus: Fluda G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Fluda perdita (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033458

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033458

Described:

Distribution: Trinidad, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia?

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 (945) of Fluda usta - (Galiano, 1971a)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (200) - (Galiano, 1971a)

Taxonomic References

Keyserlingella perdita Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 70, pl. 5, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description

Fluda usta Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 186, f. 21-22 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033461]

Fluda perdita Galiano, 1971a: 591, pl. II, f. 14, pl. V, f. 1, pl. VI, f. 2 (f)

Fluda usta Galiano, 1971a: 597, pl. I, f. 15, pl. IV, f. 6-7 (m)

Fluda perdita Edwards, 2001: 252 (S of Fluda usta)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2001). A synonym in the genus Fluda (Araneae: Salticidae). Insecta Mundi 14: 252. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1971a). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. X. Revision del género Fluda Peckham, 1892. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 30: 573-599. -- 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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- 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
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2023-03-16	Species distribution update	Perger & Rubio, 2023	Old value
2023-03-16	Species distribution update	Galiano, 1971a	Old value