Napoca (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders|other uses|Napoca (disambiguation){{!}}Napoca}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Napoca

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = N. insignis

| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| N. constanzeae|Logunov & Schäfer, 2017 – Spain

| N. insignis|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel}}

}}

Napoca is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1901| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|07}} it contains only two species, found only in Israel and Spain: N. constanzeae and N. insignis.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Napoca Simon, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-08-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2807| doi=10.24436/2}} It is one of seven genera comprising the Harmochireae clade within the Dendryphantinae subfamily.{{cite journal| first=Dmitri V.| last=Logunov| title=A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae)| journal=Arthropoda Selecta| year=2000| volume=9| issue=4| pages=221–286| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262764692}}

It can be distinguished from similar genera such as Bianor and Sibianor by its sclerotized, bean-shaped abdomen, which overhangs the carapace. In addition, the posterior median eyes are much closer to the anterior lateral eyes than they are in related genera.