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

Matinta silvae (Crane, 1943)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034400

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Matos & Ruiz, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Mago silvae Crane, 1943: 136, f. 4A-E (Dmf) Original description

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

Matinta silvae Matos & Ruiz, 2023: 131, f. 15-18, 38-39, 47, 53, 56-57, 61, 71-72, 85-86 (mf)

References

Crane, J. (1943). Spiders of the families Lyssomanidae and Salticidae from British Guiana and Venezuela. Zoologica (New York) 28: 125-138. -- 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

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	Old value	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
2014-09-14	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2014	Old value