Simaetha
| Simaetha | |
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| Simaetha sp., frontal | |
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| Simaetha sp., dorsal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Simaetha Thorell, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. thoracica Thorell, 1881
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Simaetha is a genus of Australasian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[2] They resemble members of Simaethula and Stertinius.[3]
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:[1]
- Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Northern Territory)
- Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
- Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
- Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
- Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
- Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.
- ^ Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X.; Li, D. (2003). "Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 187–195.
External links
- Photograph of S. paetula
- Photographs of S. thoracica
- Simaetha species S. thoracica and S. tenuidens (Brown Jumpers)'
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