Simaetha
| Simaetha | |
|---|---|
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| Simaetha sp. from Hong Kong | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Marpissinae |
| Genus: | Simaetha Thorell, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 | |
| Species | |
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see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 19 species | |
Simaetha is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
All nineteen species inhabit the Australasian region.
The genus resembles Simaethula and Stertinius.[1]
Species
Simaetha sp. from Hong Kong
- Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 — Queensland, New South Wales
- Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 — Northern Territory
- Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 — Western Australia
- Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
- Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 — Queensland
- Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — Singapore
- Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) — Sumatra
- Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 — China
- Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 — New Guinea, Western Australia
- Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
- Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
- Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 — New Guinea
- Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
- Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
- Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
- Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
- Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 — Western Australia, Queensland
Footnotes
- ↑ Zhang et al. 2003
References
- Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2): 187-195. PDF (S. deelemanae)
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Photograph of S. paetula
- Photographs of S. thoracica
- Simaetha species S. thoracica and S. tenuidens (Brown Jumpers)
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