Goeldia is a genus of spiders that occur in Central to South America.[1] It was first described by Keyserling in 1891.[2] One species, Goeldia funesta, has been introduced to the United States.[3]
| Goeldia | |
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| G. patellaris, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Titanoecidae |
| Genus: | Goeldia Keyserling, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| G. leechi Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024
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| Species | |
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18 species, see text | |
Species
editAs of November 2024[update] it contains eighteen species:
- Goeldia bagumbubu Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil
- Goeldia chinipensis Leech, 1972 - Mexico
- Goeldia diva Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil
- Goeldia funesta Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Introduced to USA
- Goeldia gauderio Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil
- Goeldia goytacazes Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil
- Goeldia guayaquilensis (Schmidt, 1971) - Ecuador, Peru
- Goeldia leechi Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina
- Goeldia luteipes (Keyserling, 1891) - Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
- Goeldia mexicana (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896) - Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama
- Goeldia mirim Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil
- Goeldia nigra (Mello-Leitão, 1917) - Brazil, Argentina
- Goeldia obscura (Keyserling, 1878) - Colombia
- Goeldia patellaris (Simon, 1892) - Venezuela, Brazil
- Goeldia portenha Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Brazil, Argentina
- Goeldia tizamina (misplaced in Goeldia) (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) - Mexico
- Goeldia utcuyacu Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024 - Peru
- Goeldia zyngierae (Almeida-Silva, Brescovit & Dias, 2009) - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
References
edit- ^ "Goeldia". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ Keyserling, Eugen, Hess, Gg., Jacob, Emil Theodor Jakob, Marx, George (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Verlag von Bauer & Raspe (E. Küster). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
- ^ Almeida-Silva, Lina M.; Brescovit, Antonio D. (21 March 2024). "Unraveling the mysteries of Goeldia Keyserling, 1891: revision, description of seven new species and first record from USA (Araneae: Titanoecidae)". Zootaxa. 5428 (2): 151–193. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5428.2.1. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
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