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Genus: Matinta Ruiz & Maddison, 2019 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Matinta fonsecai (Soares & Camargo, 1948)

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil m - (Galiano, 1968c)

Taxonomic References

Mago fonsecai Soares & Camargo, 1948b: 440, f. 35-37 (Dm) Original description

Mago fonsecai Galiano, 1968c: 339, f. 62-63 (m)

Matinta fonsecai Ruiz, Maddison & Galiano, 2019: 136 (T from Mago)

Matinta fonsecai Matos & Ruiz, 2023: 135, f. 23-24, 40-41, 48, 54, 75, 84 (m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- Show included taxa

Matos, T. D. S. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2023). On the taxonomy of the jumping spider genus Matinta Ruiz & Maddison, 2019, with a taxonomic revision of the vicana species-group (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini). Zootaxa 5343(2): 126-150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.2.2 -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S., Maddison, W. P. & Galiano, M. E. (2019). A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini). Zootaxa 4658(1): 124-140. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.5 -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. A. M. & Camargo, H. F. de A. (1948b). Alguns novos salticidas do Brasil (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 8: 421-443. -- 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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2023-09-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Matos & Ruiz, 2023
2019-08-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Ruiz, Maddison & Galiano, 2019
2019-08-21	Species transferred to new genus	Ruiz, Maddison & Galiano, 2019	Species transferred from Mago to Matinta