Bellota

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:Bellota is also a homonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia.

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Bellota

| image = ECU11-9226 Bellota male.jpg

| image_caption = Male of a Bellota species

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1892

| type_species = B. peckhami

| type_species_authority = Galiano, 1978

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 9, see text

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Bellota is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1892| title=Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae| journal=Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=1–84| volume=2| issue=1| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} It is similar in appearance to the genus Chirothecia, but has a narrower cephalothorax and a shorter eye area.{{cite journal |last1=Galiano |first1=María Elena |title=Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892 |journal=Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales |date=1972 |volume=31 |issue=83 |pages=463–484 |location=Buenos Aires |language=es}} 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.