Barbara Patoleta

Barbara Maria Patoleta is a Polish arachnologist who specialises in the taxonomy, evolution and zoogeography of jumping spiders (family Salticidae) in the Pacific Islands.

Education Patoleta studied biology and chemistry at high school before studying biology at the Faculty of Agriculture at Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities between 1988 and 1993.

Taxa described As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following taxa described by Patoleta: Cytaea taveuniensis Patoleta & Gardzińska, 2010 Lagnus monteithorum Patoleta, 2008 Phintella caledoniensis Patoleta, 2009 Pristobaeus taveuniensis (Patoleta, 2008) Pristobaeus vanuaensis (Patoleta, 2008) Pristobaeus vitiensis (Patoleta, 2008) Proszynellus nasalis Patoleta & Żabka, 2015 Proszynellus occidentalis Patoleta & Żabka, 2015 Proszynellus wandae Patoleta & Żabka, 2015 Rhondes atypicus Patoleta, 2016 Rhondes berlandi Patoleta, 2016 Rhondes flexibilis Patoleta, 2016 Rhondes sarasini Patoleta, 2016 Rhondes zofiae Patoleta, 2016 Trite caledoniensis Patoleta, 2014 Trite guilberti Patoleta, 2014 Trite simoni Patoleta, 2014 Xenocytaea stanislawi Patoleta, 2011 Xenocytaea taveuniensis Patoleta, 2011 Xenocytaea victoriensis Patoleta, 2011 Xenocytaea vonavonensis Patoleta, 2011