Gelotia

Gelotia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.[4]

Gelotia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Gelotia Thorell, 1890[1]
Type species
G. frenata Thorell, 1890
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Codeta Simon, 1900[2] Policha Thorell, 1892[3]

Species

It contains nine species, found only in Asia and on New Britain:[1]

• Gelotia argenteolimbata (Simon, 1900) – Singapore
• Gelotia bimaculata Thorell, 1890 – Borneo
• Gelotia bouchardi (Simon, 1903) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Gelotia frenata Thorell, 1890 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Gelotia lanka Wijesinghe, 1991 – Sri Lanka
• Gelotia robusta Wanless, 1984 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Gelotia salax (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984 – China, Malaysia, Borneo
• Gelotia zhengi Cao & Li, 2016 – China

References

1. "Gen. Gelotia Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
2. Wanless, F. R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 46: 169.
3. Prószyński, J. (1969). "Redescriptions of type-species of genera of Salticidae (Araneida). III - Remarks on the genera Gelotia Thorell, 1890 and Policha Thorell, 1892". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria. 77: 13.
4. Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 30: 132–172.

External links

• Description and drawings
• Photographs of Gelotia sp

Further reading

• Thorell, Tamerlan (1892). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani". Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova. 31: 344.