Goleba

Goleba
juvenile female G. puella
juvenile female G. puella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Asemoneinae
Genus:	Goleba Wanless, 1980 [1]
Type species
G. puella (Simon, 1885)
Species
5, see text

Goleba is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes five species: ^[1]

• Goleba jocquei Szűts, 2001 – Rep. Congo
• Goleba lyra Maddison & Zhang, 2006 – Madagascar
• Goleba pallens (Blackwall, 1877) – Seychelles
• Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) – Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa (type species)
• Goleba punctata (G. W. Peckham, E. G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Madagascar

References

1. "Gen. Goleba Wanless, 1980". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-08.
2. Wanless, F. R. (1980). "A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 39: 213–257. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.13273 .

Further reading

• Maddison, Wayne P.; Zhang, J.X. (2006). "New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 1255: 29–35.
• Szűts, T. (2001). "Description of a new Goleba species from the African continent (Araneae: Salticidae)". Annals Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques). 285: 111–116.

External links

• Photograph of G. puella