Bellota

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Bellota is also a synonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia .

Bellota
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Male of a Bellota species
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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
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

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found in South America, Panama, the United States, and Pakistan: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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). Buenos Aires. 31 (83): 463–484.