Goleba Explained

Goleba is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980.^[1]

Species

it contains five species, found only in Africa:^[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

Further reading

• Maddison. Wayne P.. Zhang. J.X.. 2006. New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa. 1255. 29–35.
• Szűts. T.. 2001. Description of a new Goleba species from the African continent (Araneae: Salticidae). Annals Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques). 285. 111–116.

External links

• Photograph of G. puella

Notes and References

1. Wanless. F. R.. 1980. A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 213–257. 39. 10.5962/bhl.part.13273. free.
2. Gen. Goleba Wanless, 1980. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-16. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.