Matinta is a genus of South American jumping spiders (family Salticidae). The largest number of species are found in Brazil.
Taxonomy Matinta was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz, Wayne Paul Maddison & María Elena Galiano in 2019. A re-examination of the holotype of the type species 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 Amycoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.
Species it contains nineteen species, found in Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and French Guiana: Matinta acutidens (Simon, 1900) (type) – Brazil, Guyana Matinta apophysis (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Brazil Matinta balbina (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil Matinta chickeringi (Caporiacco, 1954) – French Guiana Matinta delicata (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil Matinta fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Guyana Matinta fonsecai (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil Matinta furcata (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Ecuador 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) – Peru Matinta saperda (Simon, 1900) – Brazil Matinta silvae (Crane, 1943) – Guyana, French Guiana Matinta similis (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Brazil Matinta steindachneri (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Brazil Matinta vicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil
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