Goleba

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Goleba
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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]

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains five species, found only in Africa: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Goleba Wanless, 1980". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  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.

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