- Freya (genus)
Taxobox
name = "Freya"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
subfamilia =Aelurillinae
tribus =Freyini
genus = "Freya"
genus_authority = C. L. Koch, 1850
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Freya
diversity = 31 species
type_species = "Euophrys decorata"
type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1846
range_
range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text"Freya" is a
genus of thespider familySalticidae (jumping spider s). All except one species occur in Central and South America. "F. dyali" strangely is only found inPakistan . This distribution is very similar to that of the genus "Jollas ", where also one species is found in Pakistan, and all others in Central to South America.Name
The genus name is derived from Freya, the fertility goddess of
Norse mythology .pecies
* "
Freya albosignata " (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) (Guatemala, Panama)
* "Freya arraijanica " Chickering, 1946 (Panama)
* "Freya atures " Galiano, 2001 (Venezuela)
* "Freya bicavata " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Panama)
* "Freya bifida " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Panama)
* "Freya bifurcata " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Panama)
* "Freya chapare " Galiano, 2001 (Bolivia, Brazil)
* "Freya chionopogon " Simon, 1902 (Venezuela)
* "Freya decorata " (C. L. Koch, 1846) (Northern South America)
* "Freya demarcata " Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 (Panama)
* "Freya disparipes " Caporiacco, 1954 (French Guiana)
* "Freya dureti " Galiano, 2001 (Brazil)
* "Freya dyali " Roewer, 1951 (Pakistan)
* "Freya emarginata " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Guatemala)
* "Freya frontalis " Banks, 1929 (Panama)
* "Freya grisea " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Guatemala, Panama)
* "Freya guianensis " Caporiacco, 1947 (Venezuela, Guyana)
* "Freya infuscata " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (El Salvador, Panama)
* "Freya justina " Banks, 1929 (Panama)
* "Freya longispina " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Guatemala, Panama)
* "Freya maculatipes " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Mexico)
* "Freya minuta " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Panama)
* "Freya nannispina " Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 (Panama)
* "Freya nigrotaeniata " (Mello-Leitão, 1945) (Paraguay, Argentina)
* "Freya perelegans " Simon, 1902 (Venezuela)
* "Freya petrunkevitchi " Chickering, 1946 (Panama)
* "Freya prominens " (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Mexico to Panama)
* "Freya regia " (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) (Mexico, Guatemala)
* "Freya rubiginosa " (C. L. Koch, 1846) (Brazil)
* "Freya rufohirta " (Simon, 1902) (Brazil)
* "Freya rustica " (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) (Guatemala, Panama)External links
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/freya/freya.htm Photographs of "Freya" species from Brazil]
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/freya/bifur-ol.htm Painting of "F. bifurcata"]
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