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Genus: Coryphasia Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Coryphasia viaria (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036172

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Described:

Distribution: Jamaica

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

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Taxonomic References

Prostheclina viaria Peckham & Peckham, 1901b: 14, pl. 4, f. 11 (Dm) Original description

Siloca viaria Bryant, 1950a: 201 (T from Saitis = Prostheclina)

Saitis viarius Roewer, 1955c: 1098

Coryphasia viaria Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 23 (T from Siloca)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1950a). The salticid spiders of Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 103: 163-209. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901b). On spiders of the family Attidae found in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71(1): 6-16, pl. 2-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08162.x -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2015-04-28	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Zhang & Maddison, 2015		Species transferred from Siloca to Coryphasia after genus synonymy