{{Short description|Genus of jumping spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Chalcolecta |authority = Simon, 1884<ref name=WSC_g2566/> |diversity = 3 species |diversity_link = #Species |diversity_ref = <ref name=WSC_g2566/> }}
'''''Chalcolecta''''' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.<ref name=WSC_g2566/>
This genus is close to ''Diolenius''.<ref name=Murp00p283/>
==Species== {{As of|2017|04}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:<ref name=WSC_g2566/> * ''Chalcolecta bitaeniata'' <small>Simon, 1884</small> – Moluccas, Sulawesi * ''Chalcolecta dimidiata'' <small>Simon, 1884</small> – Moluccas * ''Chalcolecta prensitans'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> – New Guinea, Queensland
''Salticus amplectens'' <small>Doleschall, 1859</small> and ''Salticus zostifera'' <small>Doleschall, 1859</small> were included in ''Chalcolecta'' by Joanna Gardzińska and Marek Żabka in 2005, as ''nomina dubia'' (doubtful names), since the original type specimens have been lost.<ref name=GardZabk05/> {{As of|2017|April}}, the World Spider Catalog agreed on the status of ''nomina dubia'', but considered the placement in ''Chalcolecta'' as an error ("''lapsus''").<ref name=WSC_g2941/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Murp00p283>{{Citation |last1=Murphy |first1=Frances |last2=Murphy |first2=John |date=2000 |title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia |publication-place=Kuala Lumpur |publisher=Malaysian Nature Society |isbn=978-983-9681-17-8 |name-list-style=amp }}, p. 283</ref>
<ref name=WSC_g2566>{{citation |title=Gen. ''Chalcolecta'' Simon, 1884 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2566 |accessdate=2017-04-06 }}</ref>
<ref name=WSC_g2941>{{citation |title=Gen. ''Salticus'' Latreille, 1804 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2941 |accessdate=2017-04-06 }}</ref>
<ref name=GardZabk05>{{Citation |last1=Gardzińska |first1=J. |last2=Żabka |first2=M. |date=2005 |title=A revision of the spider genus ''Chalcolecta'' Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Annales Zoologici |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=437–448 |url=http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/Zabkaworks/Chalcolecta.pdf |accessdate=2017-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021205646/http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/Zabkaworks/Chalcolecta.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-21 |name-list-style=amp |url-status=dead }}</ref> }}
==External links== * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/chalcole/pren-gph.htm Photographs of ''C. prensitans'']
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Category:Salticidae Category:Salticidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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