Goleba punctata

Goleba punctata is a species of jumping spider in the genus Goleba. The species has been identified in Madagascar. The female was first described by George Peckham, Elizabeth Peckham and W.H. Wheeler in 1889. Initially placed in the genus Asemonea, the species was moved to Goleba in 1980 by Fred Wanless.^[1][2]

Goleba punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Goleba
Species:	G. punctata
Binomial name
Goleba punctata (G. W. Peckham, E. G. Peckham & Wheeler, 1889)

They are distributed across southern Africa (Ghana, Congo, Kenya, Angola, South Africa), and have been collected occasionally from the foliage of woody plants.^[3][4]

Appearance

Goleba punctata have light green, pear-shaped carapaces (with females being slightly larger and rounder than males) parallel brown stripes on the thorax, and black markings around all but the anterior median eyes.^[1][3] The eyes are in four rows on high tubercles with the posterior median pair being the largest. The abdomen is narrower than the carapace with a poorly defined pattern of reddish-brown hairs.^[3]