Bellota | |
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Male of a Bellota species | |
Scientific classification | |
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]
As of June 2019 [update] it contains nine species, found in South America, Panama, the United States, and Pakistan: [1]
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Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax ; a much longer eye area ; the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.
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