Maevia

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Maevia
Temporal range: Neogene–present
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Male Maevia inclemens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Maevia
C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
Attus inclemens
Walckenaer, 1837
Species

See text.

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

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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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