Simaetha
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Simaetha is a spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

All species inhabit the Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

n region, with the exception of one Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

n species, S. castanea.

The genus resembles Simaethula
Simaethula
Simaethula is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .This genus is endemic to Australia.-Species:* Simaethula aurata — Queensland* Simaethula auronitens Simaethula is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).This genus is endemic to Australia.-Species:* Simaethula aurata (L....

 and Stertinius
Stertinius
Stertinius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Stertinius balius * Stertinius capucinus Simon, 1902 * Stertinius cyprius Merian, 1911...

.

Species

  • Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994Queensland
    Queensland
    Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

    , New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

  • Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994Northern Territory
    Northern Territory
    The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

  • Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994Western Australia
    Western Australia
    Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

  • Simaetha castanea Lessert, 1927Congo basin
    Congo Basin
    The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin that is the drainage of the Congo River of west equatorial Africa. The basin begins in the highlands of the East African Rift system with input from the Chambeshi River, the Uele and Ubangi Rivers in the upper reaches and the Lualaba River draining wetlands...

  • Simaetha cingulata (Karsch
    Friedrich Karsch
    Ferdinand Karsch or Karsch-Haack was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist....

    , 1891)
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

  • Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 — Queensland
  • Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

  • Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

  • Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919)Sumatra
    Sumatra
    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...

  • Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000China
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

  • Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994New Guinea
    New Guinea
    New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

    , Western Australia
  • Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Simaetha paetula (Keyserling
    Eugen von Keyserling
    Eugen von Keyserling was a German arachnologist.He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.-External links:...

    , 1882)
    — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 — New Guinea
  • Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1891) — Sri Lanka
  • Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Queensland
  • Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) — New Guinea, Western Australia, Queensland
  • Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 — Western Australia, Queensland

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