''Simaetha'' 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
Australasia
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n
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
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octaviu ...
in 1881.
They resemble members of ''
Simaethula'' and ''
Stertinius''.
Species
, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia,
Papua New Guinea
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, and
Australia:
*''
Simaetha almadenensis''
Zabka, 1994 –
Australia (
Queensland
)
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,
New South Wales
)
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)
*''
Simaetha atypica''
Zabka, 1994 – Australia (
Northern Territory
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)
*''
Simaetha broomei''
Zabka, 1994 – Australia (
Western Australia
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)
*''
Simaetha cheni''
(Wang & Li, 2021) – China
*''
Simaetha cingulata''
( Karsch, 1892) –
Sri Lanka
*''
Simaetha colemani''
Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
*''
Simaetha damongpalaya''
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 –
Philippines
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*''
Simaetha deelemanae''
Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 –
Singapore
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*''
Simaetha furiosa''
( Hogg, 1919) –
Indonesia
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(
Sumatra)
*''
Simaetha gongi
''Simaetha'' is a genus of Australasian Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881. They resemble members of ''Simaethula'' and ''Stertinius''.
Species
, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia, Papua New ...
''
Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 –
China
*''
Simaetha huigang''
(Wang & Li, 2022) – China
*''
Simaetha knowlesi''
Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
*''
Simaetha laminata''
(Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
*''
Simaetha makinanga''
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
*''
Simaetha menglun''
(Wang & Li, 2020) – China
*''
Simaetha paetula''
( Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
*''
Simaetha papuana''
Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
*''
Simaetha pengi''
(Wang & Li, 2020) – China
*''
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)
''
Irura bidenticulata'' was initially mistaken by taxonomists for a species belonging to this genus.
References
External links
Photograph of ''S. paetula''
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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