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

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

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033900

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Described:

Distribution: Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, Colombia

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

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m 1f (Richman, 1989: 322 mentions only m "holotype") - (Peckham & Peckham, 1894b)

Taxonomic References

Anoka vernalis Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 125, pl. 13, f. 3 (f)

Anoka vernalis Peckham & Peckham, 1894b: 701, pl. 62, f. 9 (Dmf) Original description

Wala vernalis Banks, 1901d: 224

Wala vernalis Petrunkevitch, 1930b: 139, f. 120-129 (mf)

Hentzia vernalis Bryant, 1940: 495, f. 287-288 (m)

Hentzia vernalis Richman, 1989: 322, f. 87-94 (mf)

References

Banks, N. (1901d). Some spiders and other Arachnida from Porto Rico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 24: 217-227, pl. 15. -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894b). On the spiders of the family Attidae of the island of Saint-Vincent. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 61(4, 1893): 692-704, pl. 61-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1893.tb00568.x [[published in April 1894, after Duncan, 1937]] -- 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part three. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 31: 1-191. -- 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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Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-11-12	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected