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Genus: Helvetia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Helvetia albovittata Simon, 1901

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033876

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Curaçao, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Introduced to Galapagos

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (9341) - (Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008b)
Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (6737) of Helvetia otiosa - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Helvetia albovittata Simon, 1901c: 157 (Df) Original description

Admestina insularis Banks, 1902c: 66, pl. 2, f. 4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033878]

Helvetia albovittata Galiano, 1963a: 361, pl. XIX, f. 17 (f)

Helvetia otiosa Galiano, 1976c: 54, f. 8-12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057987]

Helvetia insularis Galiano, 1989a: 49 (T from Admestina, S of Helvetia otiosa)

Helvetia albovittata Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008b: 142, f. 13-14 (f, S of Helvetia insularis)

Helvetia albovittata Bedoya-Róqueme, Nadal & Rubio, 2018: 3, f. 4-20 (mf)

References

Banks, N. (1902c). Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 49-86. -- Show included taxa

Bedoya-Róqueme, E., Nadal, M. F. & Rubio, G. D. (2018). First record of the genus Helvetia Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from Colombia and extension of its distribution in Argentina. Peckhamia 175.1: 1-10. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1976c). Dos neuvas especies del género Helvetia Peckham, 1894 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 35: 51-56. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1989a). Note on the genera Admestina and Akela (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 49-50. -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008b). Revision of Helvetia (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25: 139-147. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2021-06-22	Species distribution update	Suarez-Martinez & Bedoya-Róqueme, 2021	Old value
2018-12-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Bedoya-Róqueme, Nadal & Rubio, 2018
2018-12-07	Species distribution update	Bedoya-Róqueme, Nadal & Rubio, 2018	Old value