Frigga

Frigga is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.^[2] The name is derived from Frigga, a Norse goddess.

Species

As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found in South America, Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, and on the Polynesian Islands:^[1]

• Frigga coronigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Brazil
• Frigga crocuta (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Is., Australia (Queensland), French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is.)
• Frigga finitima Galiano, 1979 – Bolivia, Argentina
• Frigga flava (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala
• Frigga kessleri (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana
• Frigga opulenta Galiano, 1979 – Ecuador, Peru
• Frigga pratensis (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Mexico to Colombia
• Frigga quintensis (Tullgren, 1905) – Argentina, Brazil
• Frigga rufa (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana, Brazil
• Frigga simoni (Berland, 1913) – Ecuador

Gallery

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  Female Frigga quintensis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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  Male Frigga crocuta in Puerto Villamil, Ecuador

References