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

Frigga crocuta (Taczanowski, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033492

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos. Introduced to Britain, Australia (Queensland), Pacific Is.

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Phiale orvillei - (Galiano, 1981f)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 15m 4f 1j (19913) of Sandalodes calvus - (Galiano, 1979b)
Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m of Phiale bispinosa - (Galiano, 1979b)
Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 3m 9f 8j - (Galiano, 1979b)

Taxonomic References

Amycus crocutus Taczanowski, 1878a: 355 (Dmf) Original description

Sandalodes calvus Simon, 1902a: 389 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061139]

Phiale bispinosa Banks, 1930b: 277, pl. 1, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061138]

Sandalodes calvus Berland, 1933b: 55, f. 22-26 (mf)

Phiale orvillei Chickering, 1946: 234, f. 197 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061145]

Phiale crocuta Galiano, 1968c: 285 (T from Amycus)

Frigga crocuta Galiano, 1979b: 120, f. 12, 30, 43 (mf, T from Phiale)

Phiale crocuta Galiano, 1979f: 691, f. 1-7 (mf, S of Phiale bispinosa [removed from S of P. coronigera, rejecting Roth & Craig, 1970: 121] and Sandalodes calvus)

Frigga crocuta Galiano, 1981f: 285 (S of Phiale orvillei)

Frigga crocuta Davies & Żabka, 1989: 246, pl. 50 (mf)

Frigga crocuta Bedoya-Róqueme & Lopez-Villada, 2020b: 15, f. 37-42 (m)

Frigga crocuta Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023: 859, f. 5C-E (f)

Frigga crocuta Baert et al., 2023: 24, f. 80A-C (mf)

Frigga crocuta Logunov, 2024f: 2, f. 1-8 (mf)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1930b). Arachnida. In: The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925 conducted by Alf Wollebaek. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 68: 271-278, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. & Lopez-Villada, S. (2020b). Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Department of Córdoba in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. Peckhamia 224.1: 1-23. -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1933b). Araignées des Iles Marquises. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 114: 39-70. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Davies, V. T. & Żabka, M. (1989). Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 189-266. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1979b). Revision del género Frigga C. L. Koch, 1851 (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 33: 113-135. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1979f). Nota sobre Phiale crocuta (Taczanowski, 1879), su distribucion y sus sinonimos (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 35: 689-696. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1981f). Algunos nuevos sinonimos en Salticidae (Araneae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 39: 283-285. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2024f). On another non-native jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from the United Kingdom. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 161: 2. -- Show included taxa

Macías-Tulcán, M., Galvis, W. & Molina-Moreira, N. (2023). New species and records of jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 19(5): 852-861. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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
2025-10-26	Species distribution update	Galiano, 1981f	Old value
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
2024-11-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2024f
2024-11-08	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2024f	Old value
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023
2020-11-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Bedoya-Róqueme & Lopez-Villada, 2020b
2020-11-03	Species distribution update	Bedoya-Róqueme & Lopez-Villada, 2020b	Old value
2017-08-08	Species distribution update	Dierkens & Ramage, 2016	Old value