{{short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Holcolaetis vellerea 310128832 559693543.jpg | image_caption = male ''H. vellerea'' | image2 = Holcolaetis00.jpg | image2_caption = Unknown species of ''Holcolaetis'' | taxon = Holcolaetis | authority = Simon, 1886 | type_species = ''Holcolaetis xerampelina'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1886 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Holcolaetis''''' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Like ''Euryattus'' and ''Thiania bhamoensis'', these spiders build a flat, densely woven egg sac that is not contiguous with the silk of the nest. ''Holcolaetis'' posits the egg sac on the trunks of trees.<ref name=Li2002>Li ''et al.'' 2002</ref>
==Species== <gallery mode=packed heights=140px> Holcolaetis vellerea 310128832 559693879.jpg|male ''H. vellerea'' Holcolaetis zuluensis 312392642 564015031.jpg|female ''H. zuluensis'' Holcolaetis zuluensis 300860911 542116866.jpg|female ''H. zuluensis'' </gallery>
{{as of|2025|10}}, this genus includes eight species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Holcolaetis albobarbata'' <small>Simon, 1909</small> – West, Central Africa * ''Holcolaetis clarki'' <small>Wanless, 1985</small> – West, Central Africa * ''Holcolaetis cothurnata'' <small>(Gerstaecker, 1873)</small> – Tanzania (Zanzibar) * ''Holcolaetis spatulata'' <small>Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025</small> – Ghana * ''Holcolaetis strandi'' <small>Caporiacco, 1940</small> – Ethiopia * ''Holcolaetis vellerea'' <small>Simon, 1909</small> – Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Sao Tome, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen * ''Holcolaetis xerampelina'' <small>Simon, 1886</small> – Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe (type species) * ''Holcolaetis zuluensis'' <small>Lawrence, 1937</small> – Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2696 | title=Gen. ''Holcolaetis'' Simon, 1886 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2025-10-08}}</ref> }}
* {{aut|Li, D.; Yik, S.H. & Seah, W.K.}} (2002): Rivet-like nest-building and agonistic behaviour of ''Thiania bhamoensis'', an iridescent jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from Singapore. '''50'''(1): 143-151. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070811094257/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/50/50rbz143-151.pdf PDF]
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/holclaet/holco-ph.htm Photograph of ''Holcolaetis'' sp.] * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/holclaet/vidua-ph.htm Photograph of ''H. vellerea'']
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Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Salticidae Category:Salticidae genera Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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