Bellota

Bellota is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2]

Bellota is also a synonym of the plant genus Ocotea (sweetwoods).

Bellota
Male of a Bellota species
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Bellota
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
B. peckhami
Galiano, 1978
Species

9, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found in South America, Panama, the United States, and Pakistan:[1]

  • Bellota fascialis Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
  • Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878) – 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
  1. "Gen. Bellota Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.


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