''Goleba puella'' is the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

jumping spider 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 ...

in the

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Goleba ''Goleba'' is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980. Species it contains five species, found only in Africa: *'' Goleba jocquei'' Szüts, 2001 – Congo *'' Goleba lyra'' Maddison & Zhang, 2006 – ...

''. The species has been identified in Angola, Congo, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. Initially placed in the genus '' Asemonea '', the species was moved to ''Goleba'' in 1980 by Fred Wanless.

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Salticidae Spiders described in 1885 Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Eugène Simon {{Salticidae-stub