| Cytaea levii | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Cytaea |
| Species: | C. levii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cytaea levii Peng & Li, 2002 | |
Cytaea levii is a species of jumping spider.
The species is allied to C. alburna .
Cytaea levii is named in honor of H. W. Levi, a mentor of one of the first describers at Harvard University.
Cytaea levii is only known from Taiwan.
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Herbert Walter Levi was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany, and was educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England. He then received his higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi authored about 150 scientific papers on spiders and on biological conservation. He is the author of the popular Golden Guide Spiders and their Kin, with Lorna Rose Levi and Herbert Zim.
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