Maevia

Maevia
male Maevia inclemens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Superfamily: Salticoidea
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Marpissiniae
Genus: Maevia
C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
Attus inclemens
Walckenaer, 1837
Species

see text

Diversity
11 species

Maevia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Maevia appears to have been a large blanket genus in its beginnings, with not closely related species from the New World and the region from India to the Moluccas being lumped there. As the type species is from North America, those that occur in the New World were left in the genus, with most others transferred to other genera. However, several species exist in Asia for which there has been no information since their description, often more than a hundred years ago, so transferring them to other genera proves difficult.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 270

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