Freya (spider)
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| Freya | |
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| Male Freya decorata in Ecuador | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Freya C. L. Koch, 1850[1] |
| Type species | |
| F. decorata (C. L. Koch, 1846) | |
| Species | |
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13, see text | |
Freya is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2] The name is derived from Freya, the fertility goddess of Norse mythology.
