# Simaetha

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***Simaetha*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [Australasian](/source/Australasia) [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) that was first described by [Tamerlan Thorell](/source/Tamerlan_Thorell) in 1881.[2] They resemble members of *[Simaethula](/source/Simaethula)* and *[Stertinius](/source/Stertinius)*.[3]

## Species

As of August 2022, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia, [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea), and [Australia](/source/Australia):[1]

- *[Simaetha almadenensis](/source/Simaetha_almadenensis)* [Zabka](/source/Marek_Micha%C5%82_%C5%BBabka), 1994 – [Australia](/source/Australia) ([Queensland](/source/Queensland), [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales))
- *[Simaetha atypica](/source/Simaetha_atypica)* Zabka, 1994 – Australia ([Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory))
- *[Simaetha broomei](/source/Simaetha_broomei)* Zabka, 1994 – Australia ([Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia))
- *[Simaetha cheni](/source/Simaetha_cheni)* (Wang & Li, 2021) – China
- *[Simaetha cingulata](/source/Simaetha_cingulata)* ([Karsch](/source/Ferdinand_Karsch), 1892) – [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka)
- *[Simaetha colemani](/source/Simaetha_colemani)* Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
- *[Simaetha damongpalaya](/source/Simaetha_damongpalaya)* Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
- *[Simaetha deelemanae](/source/Simaetha_deelemanae)* Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – [Singapore](/source/Singapore)
- *[Simaetha furiosa](/source/Simaetha_furiosa)* ([Hogg](/source/Henry_Roughton_Hogg), 1919) – [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) ([Sumatra](/source/Sumatra))
- *[Simaetha gongi](/source/Simaetha_gongi)* Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – [China](/source/China)
- *[Simaetha huigang](/source/Simaetha_huigang)* (Wang & Li, 2022) – China
- *[Simaetha knowlesi](/source/Simaetha_knowlesi)* Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
- *[Simaetha laminata](/source/Simaetha_laminata)* (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- *[Simaetha makinanga](/source/Simaetha_makinanga)* Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- *[Simaetha menglun](/source/Simaetha_menglun)* (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
- *[Simaetha paetula](/source/Simaetha_paetula)* ([Keyserling](/source/Eugen_von_Keyserling), 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- *[Simaetha papuana](/source/Simaetha_papuana)* Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
- *[Simaetha pengi](/source/Simaetha_pengi)* (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
- *[Simaetha reducta](/source/Simaetha_reducta)* (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
- *[Simaetha robustior](/source/Simaetha_robustior)* (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- *[Simaetha tenuidens](/source/Simaetha_tenuidens)* (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- *[Simaetha tenuior](/source/Simaetha_tenuior)* (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
- *[Simaetha thoracica](/source/Simaetha_thoracica)* Thorell, 1881 ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)

*[Irura bidenticulata](/source/Irura_bidenticulata)* was initially mistaken by taxonomists for a species belonging to this genus.

## References

1. ["Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2962). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2019-09-23.

1. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". *Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova*. **17**: 1–727.

1. Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X.; Li, D. (2003). ["Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia"](https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224828/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf). *The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology*. **51** (2): 187–195. Archived from [the original](http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf) on 2006-12-29.

## External links

- [Photograph of *S. paetula*](http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/simaetha/paetu-ph.htm)
- [Photographs of *S. thoracica*](https://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/salticidae/Salticidae.html)

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