Simaetha

Simaetha
Simaetha sp. from Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Marpissinae
Genus: Simaetha
Thorell, 1881
Type species
Simaetha thoracica
Thorell, 1881
Species

see text

Diversity
19 species

Simaetha is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

All nineteen species inhabit the Australasian region.

The genus resembles Simaethula and Stertinius.[1]

Species

Simaetha sp. from Hong Kong
  • Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 – Queensland, New South Wales
  • Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 – Northern Territory
  • Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 – Western Australia
  • Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1891) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 – Queensland
  • Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
  • Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) – Sumatra
  • Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
  • Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Western Australia
  • Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1891) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
  • Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1891) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 – Western Australia, Queensland

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Zhang et al. 2003

References

  • Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2): 187-195. PDF (S. deelemanae)
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.


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