Frigga pratensis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033497

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, French Guiana


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Phiale olomegae Kraus, 1955, 1 f (8702-141) -
Taxonomic References
Hyllus pratensis Peckham & Peckham, 1885b: 70, pl. 2, f. 6 (Dm) Original description
Cytaea concinna Peckham & Peckham, 1885b: 74, pl. 2, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061148]
Cyrene pratensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 232, pl. 19, f. 4-5 (mf, T from Hyllus, S of Cytaea concinna)
Phiale pratensis Simon, 1903a: 707
Cyrene dolosa Banks, 1909a: 222, pl. 5, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061142]
Phiale dolosa Petrunkevitch, 1911: 690
Phiale olomegae Kraus, 1955b: 61, f. 172 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061144]
Frigga pratensis Galiano, 1979b: 132, f. 7, 19, 27, 29, 39-40 (mf, T from Phiale, S of Phiale dolosa and P. olomegae)
Frigga pratensis Edwards, 2015: 39, f. 14A-H (mf)
References

Banks, N. (1909a). Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194-234. -- Show included taxa

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

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1885b). On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatamala. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1885: 62-86, pl. 2. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf 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
2026-03-12 Species distribution update Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026 Old value
2015-11-13 New taxonomic reference entry Edwards, 2015

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