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Genus: Hentzia Marx, 1883 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hentzia parallela (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033895

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Described:

Distribution: Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, Curacao, Trinidad, Guyana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 2m 1j (561-563) of Maeviobeata charitonovi - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Richman, 1989)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Richman, 1989)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m of Parahentzia insignita - (Richman, 1989)
Allotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Parahentzia insignita - (Richman, 1989)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff of Parahentzia insignita - (Chickering, 1946)

Taxonomic References

Anoka parallela Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 129, pl. 13, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Anoka parallela Peckham & Peckham, 1895b: 215 (m)

Wala parallela Petrunkevitch, 1911: 717

Parahentzia insignita Chickering, 1946: 316, f. 276-280 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063726]

Maeviobeata charitonovi Caporiacco, 1947a: 34 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063725]

Maeviobeata charitonovi Caporiacco, 1948a: 734, f. 169 (mf)

Hentzia parallela Richman, 1989: 333, f. 123-129 (mf, S of Maeviobeata charitonovi and Parahentzia insignita)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1895b). New Trinidad spiders of the family Attidae. Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalist's Club 2(9): 212-216. -- 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

Richman, D. B. (1989). A revision of the genus Hentzia (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 17: 285-344. -- 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]

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