Neaetha

Neaetha is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.^[2]

Neaetha
female N. bulawayoensis
male N. bulawayoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Neaetha Simon, 1885[1]
Type species
N. membrosa (Simon, 1868)
Species
14, see text

Neaetha are found in Asia, Europe, and Africa.^[1]

Species

As of October 2025^[update], this genus includes fourteen species:^[1]

• Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 – Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan
• Neaetha alborufula Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Neaetha bulawayoensis (Wesołowska, 2000) – Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho
• Neaetha catula Simon, 1886 – East, Southern Africa
• Neaetha catulina Berland & Millot, 1941 – Mali
• Neaetha cerussata (Simon, 1868) – Italy (Sicily), Greece, Egypt, Syria
• Neaetha fulvopilosa (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria, Tunisia
• Neaetha irreperta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
• Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique
• Neaetha membrosa (Simon, 1868) – Western Mediterranean to Germany (type species)
• Neaetha oculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Botswana, Nigeria, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates
• Neaetha ravoisiaei (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria, East Africa
• Neaetha tomkovichi Logunov, 2019 – India
• Neaetha wesolowskae Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 – Thailand