# Bellota

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- Bellota*is also a [homonym](/source/Homonym_(biology)) of the [plant](/source/Plant) [genus](/source/Genus)*[Beilschmiedia](/source/Beilschmiedia)*.*

***Bellota*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) that was first described by [George Peckham](/source/George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham) & [Elizabeth Peckham](/source/George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham) in 1892.[2] It is similar in appearance to the genus *[Chirothecia](/source/Chirothecia)*, but has a narrower [cephalothorax](/source/Glossary_of_spider_terms#cephalothorax) and a shorter eye area.[3] The type species was later designated as *Bellota peckhami* Galiano, 1978, from a male specimen previously misidentied by the Peckham's as *Bellota formicina* (Taczanowski, 1878), per Galiano, 1978.

## Distribution

Most species of ***Balmaceda*** are found in [South America](/source/South_America) with one also in Central America ([Panama](/source/Panama)), and two in North America (United States of America).[1] Two others with a notably disjunct distribution in [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan) described by Dyal, 1935 can be of questionable affinity.

## Species

As of January 2025 genus ***Balmaceda*** contains nine species:[1]

- *[Bellota fascialis](/source/Bellota_fascialis)* Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- *[Bellota formicina](/source/Bellota_formicina)* ([Taczanowski](/source/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Taczanowski), 1878) – Ecuador, Peru
- *[Bellota livida](/source/Bellota_livida)* Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
- *[Bellota micans](/source/Bellota_micans)* Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- *[Bellota modesta](/source/Bellota_modesta)* ([Chickering](/source/Arthur_M._Chickering), 1946) – Panama
- *[Bellota peckhami](/source/Bellota_peckhami)* Galiano, 1978 ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Venezuela
- *[Bellota violacea](/source/Bellota_violacea)* Galiano, 1972 – Brazil
- *[Bellota wheeleri](/source/Bellota_wheeleri)* Peckham & Peckham, 1909 – USA
- *[Bellota yacui](/source/Bellota_yacui)* Galiano, 1972 – Argentina

## References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). ["Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2654). *World Spider Catalog Version 25.5*. Natural History Museum Bern. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2025-01-04.

1. 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.

1. Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género *Bellota* Peckham, 1892" (in Spanish). *Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales*. **31** (83): 463–484.

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