Goleba puella is the type species of jumping spider in the genus Goleba. The species has been identified in Angola, Congo, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. Initially placed in the genus Asemonea , the species was moved to Goleba in 1980 by Fred Wanless.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Goleba |
| Species: | G. puella
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| Binomial name | |
| Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)
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They are distributed across southern Africa (Ghana, Congo, Kenya, Angola, South Africa), and have been collected occasionally from the foliage of woody plants.[3][4]
Appearance
editGoleba punctata have light green, pear-shaped carapaces (with females being slightly larger and rounder than males) parallel brown stripes on the thorax, and black markings around all but the anterior median eyes.[5][3] The eyes are in four rows on high tubercles with the posterior median pair being the largest. The abdomen is narrower than the carapace with a poorly defined pattern of reddish-brown hairs.[3]
References
edit- ^ Wanless, F. R. (1980). "A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 39: 213–257.
- ^ "Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)". World Spider Catalog. 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Wesołowska, Wanda; Haddad, Charles R. (June 2009). "Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa". African Invertebrates. 50 (1): 13–103. doi:10.5733/afin.050.0102. ISSN 1681-5556.
- ^ "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy". doi:10.15468/39omei.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Wanless, F. R. (1980). "A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 39. Figure 53: 213–257.
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