World Spider Catalog

Genus: Helvetia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Helvetia santarema G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033880

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033880

Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (5747) of Helvetia riojanensis (misidentified) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Helvetia santarema Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 119, pl. 12, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Helvetia santarema Galiano, 1963b: 2, pl. 1, f. 7-10 (mf, S of Cotinusa humillima [revalidated by Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008b: 144, see Helvetia humillima])

Helvetia santarema Galiano, 1965d: 47, f. 9 (m)

Helvetia riojanensis Galiano, 1965d: 47, f. 5-6 (f; misidentified per Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008b: 142)

Helvetia santarema Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008b: 142, f. 11-12 (f)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1963b). Nota sobre arañas del grupo Marpisseae (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 24: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1965d). Descripcion de Helvetia riojanensis sp. n. y del alotipo m de H. albovittata Simon (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 27: 47-50. -- 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

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008b). Revision of Helvetia (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25: 139-147. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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

No logging data available so far.