''Corythalia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...
that was first described by
Carl Ludwig Koch
Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born ...
in 1850.
The genus is distributed throughout most of the
Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the 180th meridian.- The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Geopolitically, ...
.
Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following 89 species:
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Corythalia alacris''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) –
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
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Corythalia albicincta
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) –
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...
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Corythalia antepagmenti
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 –
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
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Corythalia argentinensis
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Galiano, 1962 –
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
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Corythalia bicincta
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Petrunkevitch, 1925 –
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
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Corythalia binotata
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) –
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
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Corythalia blanda
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) –
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
,
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...
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Corythalia brevispina
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala,
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
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Corythalia broccai
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Zhang & Maddison, 2012 –
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...
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Corythalia bromelicola
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
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Corythalia bryantae
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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Chickering, 1946 – Panama
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Corythalia chalcea
''Corythalia'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the Wor ...
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Crane, 1948 – Venezuela
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Corythalia chickeringi''
Kraus, 1955 –
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
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Corythalia cincta''
(Badcock, 1932) –
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...
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Corythalia circumcincta''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
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Corythalia circumflexa''
(Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Venezuela
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Corythalia clara''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
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Corythalia concinna''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia conferta''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Corythalia conformans''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
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Corythalia conspecta''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) –
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
to
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
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Corythalia coronai''
Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
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Corythalia cristata''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
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Corythalia dakryodes''
Bayer, 2020 – Colombia,
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
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Corythalia decora''
(Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
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Corythalia diffusa''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
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Corythalia drepane''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia drepanopsis''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia electa''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Colombia
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Corythalia erebus''
(Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
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Corythalia excavata''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
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Corythalia fimbriata''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
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Corythalia flagrans''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia flavida''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala
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Corythalia foelixi''
Bayer, 2020 –
Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic British West Indies. entry "Guyana" Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the co ...
,
French Guiana
French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west ...
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Corythalia fragilis''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia fulgipedia''
Crane, 1948 – Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
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Corythalia gasnieri''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia grata''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
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Corythalia hadzji''
Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
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Corythalia hamulifera''
Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
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Corythalia heros''
(Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
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Corythalia insularis''
Ruiz, Brescovit & Freitas, 2007 – Brazil (Fernando de Noronha Is.)
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Corythalia iridescens''
Petrunkevitch, 1926 –
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands () are an archipelago between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Caribbean Sea, geographically forming part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, Caribbean islands or West Indie ...
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Corythalia latior''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 –
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
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Corythalia latipes
''Corythalia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Species
, the World Spider C ...
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(C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil
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Corythalia lineata''
Bayer, 2020 – Guyana
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Corythalia longiducta''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia luctuosa''
Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana, Brazil
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Corythalia metallica''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894) –
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the south ...
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Corythalia minor''
(Bryant, 1943) – Hispaniola
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Corythalia modesta''
Chickering, 1946 – Panama
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Corythalia murcida''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Central America
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Corythalia neglecta''
Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
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Corythalia nigriventer''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Panama
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Corythalia nigropicta''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Central America
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Corythalia noda''
(Chamberlin, 1916) –
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
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Corythalia obsoleta''
Banks, 1929 – Panama
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Corythalia opima''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885) – United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador
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Corythalia panamana''
Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
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Corythalia parva''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
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Corythalia parvula''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
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Corythalia peblique''
Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
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Corythalia penicillata''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Guatemala
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Corythalia pequii''
Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022 – Brazil
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Corythalia placata''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela?
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Corythalia porphyra''
Brüning & Cutler, 1995 – Costa Rica
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Corythalia protensa''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia pulchra''
Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
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Corythalia quadriguttata''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
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Corythalia ricti''
Bayer, 2020 – Guyana
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Corythalia roeweri''
Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
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Corythalia rugosa''
Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
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Corythalia scutellaris''
Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
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Corythalia sellata''
Simon, 1901 – presumably Neotropics/South America
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Corythalia spiralis''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil
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Corythalia spirorbis''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
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Corythalia sulphurea''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Costa Rica, Panama
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Corythalia tribulosa''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Colombia
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Corythalia tristriata''
Bryant, 1942 –
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
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Corythalia trochophora''
Bayer, 2020 – Ecuador
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Corythalia tropica''
(Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Venezuela
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Corythalia ursina''
(Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana
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Corythalia valida''
(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
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Corythalia verhaaghi''
Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020 – Brazil
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Corythalia vervloeti''
Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
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Corythalia voluta''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – El Salvador, Panama
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Corythalia waleckii''
(Taczanowski, 1871) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, French Guiana
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Corythalia xanthopa''
Crane, 1948 – Venezuela
References
External links
Key to species of the genus Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)Gen. Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850at World Spider Catalog
Corythaliaat iNaturalist
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch
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