Goleba

Goleba is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1980.^[2]

Goleba
juvenile female G. puella
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
5, see text

Species

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