Simaetha Explained

Simaetha is a genus of Australasian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[1] They resemble members of Simaethula and Stertinius.^[2]

Species

, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:^[3]

• 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.

External links

• Photograph of S. paetula
• Photographs of S. thoracica

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 1–727. 17. Tamerlan Thorell.
2. Zhang. J.X.. Song. D.X.. Li. D.. 2003. Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51. 2. 187–195. https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224828/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf. dead. 2006-12-29.
3. Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.