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Genus: Gelotia Thorell, 1890 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gelotia frenata Thorell, 1890

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033521

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra)

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

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Taxonomic References

Gelotia frenata Thorell, 1890c: 164 (Df) Original description

Gelotia frenata Prószyński, 1969: 13, f. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 (f)

Gelotia frenata Wanless, 1984a: 170, f. 16D-F (f)

Gelotia frenata Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 38, f. 55 (f)

Gelotia frenata Prószyński, 2017b: 114, f. 50T (f)

References

Prószyński, J. (1969). Redescriptions of type-species of genera of Salticidae (Araneida). III - Remarks on the genera Gelotia Thorell, 1890 and Policha Thorell, 1892. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 77: 12-20. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2012). Description of some Salticidae (Aranei) from the Malay archipelago. II. Salticidae of Java and Sumatra, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta 21(1): 29-60. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.21.1.04 -- 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

Thorell, T. (1890c). Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 132-172. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984a). A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 46: 135-205. -- 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
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b