Goleba
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Goleba
| type_species = G. puella
| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1885)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
}}
Goleba is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980.{{cite journal| last=Wanless| first=F. R.| year=1980| title=A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History| pages=213–257| volume=39| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.13273| doi-access=free}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains five species, found only in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Goleba Wanless, 1980| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2667| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Goleba jocquei Szüts, 2001 – Congo
- Goleba lyra Maddison & Zhang, 2006 – Madagascar
- Goleba pallens (Blackwall, 1877) – Seychelles
- Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) (type) – Ghana, Congo, Kenya, Angola, South Africa
- Goleba punctata (Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Madagascar
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last1=Maddison| first1=Wayne P.| last2=Zhang| first2=J.X.| year=2006| title=New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Zootaxa| volume=1255| pages=29–35}}
- {{cite journal| last=Szűts| first=T.| year=2001| title=Description of a new Goleba species from the African continent (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Annals Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques)| volume=285| pages=111–116}}
External links
- [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/goleba/puell-ph.htm Photograph of G. puella]
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