Galianora is a genus of jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

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The two described species have quite a different body form: G. sacha is elongate and pale, with raptorial

Raptorial

The term raptorial implies much the same as "predatory", but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successive leg segments...

 front legs, while G. bryicola is compact and brown. An as-yet undescribed species from Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 is intermediate in body form and palpus.

Name

The genus is named in honour of arachnologist María Elena Galiano

María Elena Galiano

María Elena Galiano was an Argentinian arachnologist. She was one of the leading taxonomists of neotropical jumping spiders. Galiano worked at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires. She died in an accident on October 30, 2000...

. Both described species are only found in Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

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Species

• Galianora bryicola
  Galianora bryicola
  Galianora bryicola is a species of jumping spider from Ecuador.Males are about 4 mm long, adult females are not yet known. This species is brown with a generalized salticid body form. The carapace is brown to black with a pale central longitudinal stripe on the thorax...
  
  Maddison, 2006
• Galianora sacha
  Galianora sacha
  Galianora sacha is a species of jumping spider from Ecuador.This species is pale, elongate, long-legged and somewhat flattened. It superficially resembles the genera Itata or Helpis. The first pair of legs is elongate and probably used for catching prey...
  
  Maddison, 2006