Simaetha

Simaetha is a genus of Australasian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[2] They resemble members of Simaethula and Stertinius.[3]

Simaetha
Simaetha sp., frontal
Simaetha sp., dorsal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Simaetha
Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
S. thoracica
Thorell, 1881
Species

19, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:[1]

  • Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
  • Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
  • Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
  • Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
  • Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
  • Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
  • Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
  • Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
  • Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)

References
  1. "Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.
  3. Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X.; Li, D. (2003). "Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 187–195. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-29.


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