Bellota
- Bellota is also a homonym of the plant genus Beilschmiedia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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]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]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
[edit]- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 31 (83). Buenos Aires: 463–484.
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