Aelurillini: Freyina

Hill, David E., 2021, The Ecuadorean jumping spiders of Andreas Kay (Araneae: Salticidae), Peckhamia 254 (1), pp. 1-19 : 12

Aelurillini: Freyina ( Figures 22-32 )

The Freyina is a very successful, endemic group of Neotropical salticids. G. B. Edwards has recently published a comprehensive review of this group ( Edwards 2015). It is quite possible that the Freyina represent diversification or radiation from a single ancestor transported from Africa to South America by the prevailing east-to-west ocean currents that link the two continents. A similar form of transport, in the Eocene, is thought to account for the introduction of caviomorph rodents and primates to South America, each group descending from a single ancestor ( Poux et al. 2006).

Figures

Figure 22. Female Phiale C. L. Koch 1846.

Figure 23. Female Phiale.

Figure 24. Female Phiale cf. gratiosa C. L. Koch 1846.

Figure 25. Female Phiale.

Figure 26. Female Phiale.

Figure 27. Female Phiale guttata C. L. Koch 1846.

Figure 28. Female Phiale.

Figure 29. Female Phiale.

Figure 30. Male Freya decorata (C. L. Koch 1846).

Figure 31. Male Eustiromastix Simon 1902 from the Mindo Rainforest. Similar to Chira Peckham & Peckham 1896, which has banded legs I.

Figure 32. Female Pachomius Peckham & Peckham 1896.