Bellota

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Bellota is also a homonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia .

Bellota
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Male of a Bellota species
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Domain: Eukaryota
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] The type species was later designated as Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978, from a male specimen previously misidentied by the Peckham's as Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878), per Galiano, 1978.

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Distribution

Most species of Balmaceda are found in South America with one also in Central America (Panama), and two in North America (United States of America). [1] Two others with a notably disjunct distribution in Pakistan described by Dyal, 1935 can be of questionable affinity.

Species

As of January 2025 genus Balmaceda contains nine species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-01-04.
  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). 31 (83). Buenos Aires: 463–484.