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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Ghelna
| image = Edwards_Ghelna_castanea_01.jpg
| image_caption = Female ''Ghelna castanea''
| authority = [[Wayne Maddison|Maddison]], 1996<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Ghelna castanea|G. castanea]]''
| type_species_authority = ([[Nicholas Marcellus Hentz|Hentz]], 1846)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Ghelna''''' is a [[genus]] of North American [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] that was first described by [[Wayne Maddison|Wayne Paul Maddison]] in 1996.<ref name=Madd1996>{{cite journal| last=Maddison| first=W. P.| year=1996| title=''Pelegrina'' Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus ''Metaphidippus'' (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=215–368| volume=154| author-link=Wayne Maddison}}</ref>
==Species==
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains four species, found only in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Ghelna Maddison, 1996| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2664| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Ghelna barrowsi]]'' <small>([[B. J. Kaston|Kaston]], 1973)</small> – USA
*''[[Ghelna canadensis]]'' <small>([[Nathan Banks|Banks]], 1897)</small> – USA, [[Canada]]
*''[[Ghelna castanea]]'' <small>(Hentz, 1846)</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – USA
*''[[Ghelna sexmaculata]]'' <small>(Banks, 1895)</small> – USA, Canada
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/canad-gb.htm Picture of ''G. canadensis''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517054613/http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/canad-gb.htm |date=2011-05-17 }}
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/casta-gb.htm Picture of ''G. castanea''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517054642/http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/casta-gb.htm |date=2011-05-17 }}
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/sexma-gb.htm Pictures of ''G. sexmaculata''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517054701/http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/ghelna/sexma-gb.htm |date=2011-05-17 }}
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[[Category:Salticidae genera]]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of North America]]
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