Chirothecia

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Chirothecia

| authority = Taczanowski, 1878

| type_species = C. clavimana

| type_species_authority = (Taczanowski, 1871)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 13, see text

| synonyms =

• Partona Simon, 1901{{cite journal| last=Galiano| first=M. E.| year=1972| title=Revisión del género Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 (Araneae, Salticidae)| journal=Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia| volume=4| page=4}}

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Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878.{{cite journal| last=Taczanowski| first=L.| year=1878| title=Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides| journal=Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou| pages=278–374| volume=53| author-link=Władysław Taczanowski}} Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax (the width being 70–80% of the length and the height being 38–47% of the length); a much longer eye area (occupying 60–70% of the cephalothorax length); the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.{{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}}