Simaetha
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Simaetha
| image = Simaetha thoracica (brown jumping spider).jpg
| image_caption = Simaetha thoracica
| image2 =
| image2_caption =
| authority = Thorell, 1881
| type_species = S. thoracica
| type_species_authority = Thorell, 1881
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 23, see text
}}
Simaetha is a genus of Australasian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1881| title=Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=1–727| volume=17| author-link=Tamerlan Thorell}} They resemble members of Simaethula and Stertinius.{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J.X.| last2=Song| first2=D.X.| last3=Li| first3=D.| year=2003| title=Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia| journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology| volume=51| issue=2| pages=187–195| url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224828/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2006-12-29}}
Species
{{as of|2022|08}}, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2962| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Northern Territory)
- Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Simaetha cheni (Wang & Li, 2021) – China
- Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
- Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
- Simaetha huigang (Wang & Li, 2022) – China
- Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
- Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Simaetha menglun (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
- Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
- Simaetha pengi (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
- Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
Irura bidenticulata was initially mistaken by taxonomists for a species belonging to this genus.
References
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External links
- [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/simaetha/paetu-ph.htm Photograph of S. paetula]
- [https://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/salticidae/Salticidae.html Photographs of S. thoracica]
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Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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