Gelotia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Spartaeinae
Genus: Gelotia
Species: G. argenteolimbata – G. bimaculata – G. frenata – G. lanka – G. liuae – G. robusta – G. salax – G. syringopalpis – G. zhengi
Name

Gelotia Thorell, 1890

Type species: Gelotia frenata Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1890
Synonyms

Policha Thorell, 1892
Type species: Gelotia bimaculata Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1892
Codeta Simon, 1900
Type species: Codeta argenteolimbata Eugène Simon, 1900, by monotypy

References

Cao, Q., Li, S-Q. & Żabka, M. 2016. The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466. Reference page.
Thorell, T. 1890. Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 132–172. [164]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

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

It contains ten 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 liuae (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
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

"Gen. Gelotia Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
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.
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.

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.