''Goleba'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of African
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980.
Species
it contains five species, found only in Africa:
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Goleba jocquei''
Szüts, 2001 –
Congo
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Goleba lyra''
Maddison Maddison is both a surname and a given name. It is a variant spelling of Madison. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
* Ada Maddison (1869–1950), British Mathematician
* Adela Maddison (1862–1929), British composer
* Angus Maddiso ...
& Zhang, 2006 –
Madagascar
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*''
Goleba pallens''
( Blackwall, 1877) –
Seychelles
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*''
Goleba puella''
(Simon, 1885) (
type) –
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
, Congo,
Kenya
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Angola
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,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
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Goleba punctata''
(Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Madagascar
References
Further reading
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External links
Photograph of ''G. puella''
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Africa
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