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Genus: Goleba Wanless, 1980 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033533

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Described:

Distribution: Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Wanless, 1980d)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 3f - (Wanless, 1980d)

Taxonomic References

Asamonea puella Simon, 1885h: 27 (Dmf, lapsus) Original description

Asamonea puella Roewer, 1965: 4, f. 5a-c (mf, lapsus)

Asemonea puella Clark, 1974: 12, f. 2-3 (f)

Goleba puella Wanless, 1980d: 246, f. 22A-E, 23A-C, 29 (mf, T from Asemonea)

Goleba puella Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 38, f. 53-61 (mf)

Goleba puella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 46, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [[pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1980d). A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 39(4): 213-257. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value