Bellota
- Bellota is also a homonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia.
| Bellota | |
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| Male of a Bellota species | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Bellota Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. peckhami Galiano, 1978
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Bellota is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] It is similar in appearance to the genus Chirothecia, but has a narrower cephalothorax and a shorter eye area.[3] The type species was later designated as Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978, from a male specimen previously misidentied by the Peckham's as Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878), per Galiano, 1978.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Most species of Balmaceda are found in South America with one also in Central America (Panama), and two in North America (United States of America).[1] Two others with a notably disjunct distribution in Pakistan described by Dyal, 1935 can be of questionable affinity.
Species
[edit | edit source]As of January 2025[update] genus Balmaceda contains nine species:[1]
- Bellota fascialis Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878) – Ecuador, Peru
- Bellota livida Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- Bellota micans Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota modesta (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Bellota peckhami Galiano, 1978 (type) – Venezuela
- Bellota violacea Galiano, 1972 – Brazil
- Bellota wheeleri Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- Bellota yacui Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
References
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