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Simaetha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Family:Salticidae
Subfamily:Marpissinae
Tribe:Simaethini
Genus:Simaetha
Thorell, 1881
Diversity
20 species
Type species
Simaetha thoracica
Thorell, 1881
Species


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Simaetha is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

All species inhabit the Australasian region, with the exception of one African species, S. castanea.

The genus resembles Simaethula and Stertinius.[1]

Species

  • Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 — Queensland, New South Wales
  • Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 — Northern Territory
  • Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 — Western Australia
  • Simaetha castanea Lessert, 1927 — Congo
  • Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 — Queensland
  • Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — Singapore
  • Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) — Sumatra
  • Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 — China
  • Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 — New Guinea, Western Australia
  • Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 — New Guinea
  • Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 — Western Australia, Queensland

Footnotes

1. ^ Zhang et al. 2003

References

  • 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. PDF (S. deelemanae)
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

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Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829

Subphyla and Classes
  • Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
  • Trilobita - trilobites (extinct)
  • Subphylum Chelicerata

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Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812

Extant orders

Acarina
Amblypygi
Araneae
Opiliones
Palpigradi
Pseudoscorpionida
Ricinulei
Schizomida
Scorpiones
Solifugae
Uropygi
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Araneae
Clerck, 1757

Diversity
111 families, 40,000 species

Suborders

Mesothelae
Mygalomorphae
Araneomorphae
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Spiders
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Salticoidea

Family: Salticidae
Blackwall, 1841

Diversity
553 genera, 5025 species



Subfamilies
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Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (May 3, 1830 - December 22, 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.

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Araneae
Clerck, 1757

Diversity
111 families, 40,000 species

Suborders

Mesothelae
Mygalomorphae
Araneomorphae
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Spiders
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Salticoidea

Family: Salticidae
Blackwall, 1841

Diversity
553 genera, 5025 species



Subfamilies
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Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756).
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.
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Simaethula
Simon, 1902

Diversity
7 species

Type species
Simaethula janthina
Simon, 1902

Species

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Simaethula is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
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Stertinius
Simon, 1890

Species

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Stertinius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Species

  • Stertinius balius (Thorell, 1890) (Sumatra)
  • Stertinius capucinus

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Topography of Sumatra

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Political division of New Guinea

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Eugen von Keyserling (1833 - 1889) was a German arachnologist.

He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens (1871-1883) on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.
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Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (May 3, 1830 - December 22, 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.

Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa.
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