Gelotia Explained

Gelotia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.^[1]

Species

It contains eleven species, found only in Asia and on New Britain:^[2]

• 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
• Gelotia onoi

Hoang, Phan & Vo, 2024 - Vietnam

External links

• Description and drawings
• Photographs of Gelotia sp

Further reading

• Tamerlan. Thorell. 1892. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova. 31. 344.

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1890. Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 132–172. 30. Tamerlan Thorell.
2. Gen. Gelotia Thorell, 1890. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-16. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.