Bellota
- Bellota is also a homonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia.
| Bellota | |
|---|---|
| Male of a Bellota species | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. peckhami Galiano, 1978
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| Species | |
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Bellota is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] It is similar in appearance to the genus Chirothecia, but has a narrower cephalothorax and a shorter eye area.[3] The type species was later designated as Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978, from a male specimen previously misidentied by the Peckham's as Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878), per Galiano, 1978.
Distribution
Most species of Balmaceda are found in South America with one also in Central America (Panama), and two in North America (United States of America).[1] Two others with a notably disjunct distribution in Pakistan described by Dyal, 1935 can be of questionable affinity.
Species
As of January 2025 genus Balmaceda contains nine species:[1]
- Bellota fascialis Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878) – Ecuador, Peru
- Bellota livida Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota micans Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota modesta (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978 (type) – Venezuela
- Bellota violacea Galiano, 1972 – Brazil
- Bellota wheeleri Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota yacui Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.
- ^ Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 31 (83). Buenos Aires: 463–484.