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

Freya regia (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033487

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala

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

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Taxonomic References

Heraclea regia Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 77, pl. 3, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Cyrene regia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 229, pl. 18, f. 12-13 (mf)

Freya regia Galiano, 2001: 28, f. 17-18, 30-32, 42-43, 46, 52 (mf)

Freya regia Edwards, 2015: 36, f. 38E-H (mf)

Freya regia Prószyński, 2017b: 15, f. 4F (mf)

Freya regia Prószyński, 2018a: 26, f. 5E (m)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (2001). Revisión de las especies de Freya del grupo decorata (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 29(1): 21-41. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0021:RNDLED]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- 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

Prószyński, J. (2018a). Review of the genus Hasarius (Araneae: Salticidae) - a taxonomic fiasco. Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 16-31. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.2 -- 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
2018-01-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018a
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015