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Genus: Bellota G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Bellota formicina (Taczanowski, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032507

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador, Peru

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

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Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland j - (Galiano, 1972a)

Taxonomic References

Chirothecia formicina Taczanowski, 1878a: 367 (Dj) Original description

Bellota formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 68, pl. 5, f. 5 (Dm)

Bellota formicina Galiano, 1972a: 472, f. 9-10, 20 (j)

Bellota formicina Galiano, 1978a: 27, f. 1-7, 15-16 (m, Df)

Bellota formicina Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023: 858, f. 4A-I (m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1972a). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 31: 463-484. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1978a). Fauna desertico-costera peruana-V: Dos Salticidae (Araneae) de Piura. Revista Peruana de Entomología Agricola 21: 27-30. -- Show included taxa

Macías-Tulcán, M., Galvis, W. & Molina-Moreira, N. (2023). New species and records of jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 19(5): 852-861. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852 -- Show included taxa

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, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023
2023-07-02	Species distribution update	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023	Old value