Goleba
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| Goleba | |
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| juvenile female G. puella | |
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| juvenile female G. puella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Asemoneinae |
| Genus: | Goleba Wanless, 1980[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. puella (Simon, 1885) | |
| Species | |
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Goleba is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980.[2]
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes five species:[1]
- Goleba jocquei Szűts, 2001 – Rep. Congo
- Goleba lyra Maddison & Zhang, 2006 – Madagascar
- Goleba pallens (Blackwall, 1877) – Seychelles
- Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) – Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa (type species)
- Goleba punctata (G. W. Peckham, E. G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Madagascar
