''Matinta'' is a

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of South American

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s (family Salticidae). The largest number of species are found in Brazil.

Taxonomy

''Matinta'' was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz, Wayne Paul Maddison &

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in 2019. A re-examination of the

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of the

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of the genus '' Mago'' showed that the genus had been misinterpreted, so that species had been included in the genus that did not fit the diagnosis. Accordingly, Ruiz ''et al.'' created a new genus, ''Matinta'', to which most of the former ''Mago'' genera were transferred. ''Matinta'', like ''Mago'', was placed in the tribe Amycini, part of the

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clade of the subfamily

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Species

it contains nineteen species, found in

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, and

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: *'' Matinta acutidens'' (Simon, 1900) (

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) –

*'' Matinta apophysis'' (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Brazil *'' Matinta balbina'' (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil *'' Matinta chickeringi'' ( Caporiacco, 1954) –

*'' Matinta delicata'' (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil *'' Matinta fasciata'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana *'' Matinta fonsecai'' (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil *'' Matinta furcata'' (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) –

*'' Matinta jurutiensis'' (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil *'' Matinta longidens'' (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, French Guiana *'' Matinta mimica'' (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Ecuador *'' Matinta opiparis'' (Simon, 1900) – Brazil *'' Matinta pardo'' (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Brazil *'' Matinta procax'' (Simon, 1900) –

*'' Matinta saperda'' (Simon, 1900) – Brazil *'' Matinta silvae'' (Crane, 1943) – Guyana, French Guiana *'' Matinta similis'' (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil *'' Matinta steindachneri'' (

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, 1878) – Peru, Brazil *'' Matinta vicana'' (Simon, 1900) – Brazil

References

Salticidae genera Salticidae {{Jumping-spider-stub