Frigga (spider)

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^[update] 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

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
^ Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.

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