Hosta

Simaetha is a genus of Australasian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[2] They resemble members of Simaethula and Stertinius.^[3]

Species

As of August 2022, it contains 23 species, found only in Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia:^[1]

Simaetha almadenensis Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Simaetha atypica Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Northern Territory)
Simaetha broomei Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Western Australia)
Simaetha cheni (Wang & Li, 2021) – China
Simaetha cingulata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
Simaetha colemani Zabka, 1994 – Australia (Queensland)
Simaetha damongpalaya Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Simaetha deelemanae Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
Simaetha furiosa (Hogg, 1919) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Simaetha gongi Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
Simaetha huigang (Wang & Li, 2022) – China
Simaetha knowlesi Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia)
Simaetha laminata (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
Simaetha makinanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Simaetha menglun (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
Simaetha paetula (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
Simaetha papuana Zabka, 1994 – New Guinea
Simaetha pengi (Wang & Li, 2020) – China
Simaetha reducta (Karsch, 1892) – Sri Lanka
Simaetha robustior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
Simaetha tenuior (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)
Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Queensland)

Irura bidenticulata was initially mistaken by taxonomists for a species belonging to this genus.

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Simaetha Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ 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.
^ Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X.; Li, D. (2003). "Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 187–195. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-29.