Taxon details
Leptofreya ambigua (C. L. Koch, 1846)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2022-05-23
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033247]
- Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil. Introduced to USA (Florida, Texas)
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); m (1799)
- Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); m (ARAN-02254a) of Phiale albovittata
Freya ambigua C. L. Koch, 1850: 66.
Menemerus fannae Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 74, pl. 6, f. 6 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035662].
Thotmes fannae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 241, pl. 20, f. 22 (m).
Freya perelegans Simon, 1902a: 414 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033484].
Plexippus fannae Petrunkevitch, 1911: 695.
Phiale albovittata Schenkel, 1953a: 51, f. 45a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035386].
Euophrys ambigua Roewer, 1955c: 1179.
Freya perelegans Galiano, 1963a: 359, pl. XX, f. 8-9 (m).
Freya perelegans Ruiz & Brescovit, 2007a: 648 (S of Phiale albovittata).
Freya ambigua Edwards & Ruiz, 2013: 13, f. 1-12 (m, Df, S of Freya perelegans and Plexippus fannae).
Leptofreya ambigua Edwards, 2015: 43, f. 16A-G (mf, T from Freya).
Edwards, G. B. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2013). Freya ambigua (Araneae: Salticidae) introduced to the continental United States, with new synonyms. Journal of Arachnology 41: 11-17. doi:10.1636/k12-73.1 
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Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon: Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23: 273-470. -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 -- Show included taxa
Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- 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
Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2007a). On the Venezuelan species of jumping spider described by Schenkel (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 34: 646-648. -- Show included taxa
Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | Edwards, 2015 | n/a |
| 2015-11-13 | Species transferred to new genus | Edwards, 2015 | Species transferred from Freya to Leptofreya |