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Genus: Yamangalea Maddison, 2009 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Yamangalea frewana Maddison, 2009

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042198

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Described:

Distribution: Papua New Guinea

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM), Spencer Entomological Museum of the University of British Columbia (UBC–SEM), Vancouver, Canada m (AR00016) - (Maddison, 2009)
Paratype: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM), Spencer Entomological Museum of the University of British Columbia (UBC–SEM), Vancouver, Canada 3m 7f 3j - (Maddison, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Yamangalea frewana Maddison, 2009: 8, f. 20-30 (Dmf) Original description

Yamangalea frewana Prószyński, 2017b: 119, f. 52O, 53Q (mf)

Yamangalea frewana Szűts et al., 2020: 533, f. 3, 7-8, 19 (m)

References

Maddison, W. P. (2009). New cocalodine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Cocalodinae). Zootaxa 2021: 1-22. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2021.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T., Zhang, J. X., Gallé-Szpisjak, N. & De Bakker, D. (2020). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Papua New Guinean Mount Wilhelm and surrounding mountains. In: Robillard, T., Legendre, F., Villemant, C. & Leponce, M. (eds.) Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea - volume 2. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 214: 521-555. -- 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]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-11-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Szűts et al., 2020
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b