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

Hentzia vittata (Keyserling, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033901

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Described:

Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Richman, 1989)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m of Wala albovittata - (Richman, 1989)
Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA ? of Anoka peckhami - (Richman, 1989)
Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff of Anoka moneagua - (Richman, 1989)

Taxonomic References

Icius vittatus Keyserling, 1885: 504, pl. 13, f. 12 (Df) Original description

Wala albovittata Keyserling, 1885: 517, pl. 13, f. 20 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063724]

Icius albovittatus Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 50, pl. 1, f. 35a, pl. 4, f. 35d (m)

Anoka peckhamii Cockerell, 1893: 221 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063729]

Anoka moneagua Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 127, pl. 12, f. 9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063731]

Wala peckhami Petrunkevitch, 1911: 717 (S of Anoka = Wala moneagua)

Hentzia peckhami Bryant, 1943b: 488 (mf)

Hentzia vittata Richman, 1989: 330, f. 114-122 (mf, removed from S of Hentzia palmarum and S of Hentzia albovittata, both rejecting Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 508, S of Hentzia peckhami)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1943b). The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 445-529. -- Show included taxa

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1893). Description of a new Jamaican spider. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica 1: 221-222. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1885). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. VI. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 34: 489-534, pl. 13. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- 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. (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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