Bellota
Appearance
- Bellota is also a synonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia.
Bellota | |
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Male of a Bellota species | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Bellota Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
Type species | |
B. peckhami Galiano, 1978
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Species | |
9, see text |
Bellota is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] It is similar in appearance to the genus Chirothecia, but has a narrower cephalothorax and a shorter eye area.[3]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains nine species, found in South America, Panama, the United States, and Pakistan:[1]
- Bellota fascialis Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
- Bellota livida Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota micans Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota modesta (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978 (type) – Venezuela
- Bellota violacea Galiano, 1972 – Brazil
- Bellota wheeleri Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota yacui Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Bellota Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.
- ^ Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 31 (83). Buenos Aires: 463–484.