Biology:Ovia

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Ovia is a genus of arameomorph spiders that belongs to the family Lycosidae. Members of this genus are distributed across Southeast Asia and Southern China.[1]

This genus was first described in 2017 by Sankaran, Malamel and Sebastian with Ovia procurva being the type species.[1][2]

As of May 2026, this genus contains 10 described species:[1]

  • Ovia alboannulata (Yin, Peng, Xie, Bao & Wang, 1997) – Bhutan, China
  • Ovia chayu Xu, Wang & Zhang, 2026 Xizang, China
  • Ovia dawai Xu, Wang & Zhang, 2026 Xizang, China
  • Ovia dulong Xu, Wang & Zhang, 2026 Xizang, China
  • Ovia emae Buchar & Dolejš, 2021 – Bhutan
  • Ovia macritchie Lu, Koh, Zhang & Li, 2018 – China (Hainan), Laos, Singapore[3]
  • Ovia medog Xu, Wang & Zhang, 2026 Xizang, China
  • Ovia procurva (Yu & Song, 1988) (type species) – India, Bhutan, China, Taiwan
  • Ovia seperata Xu, Wang & Zhang, 2026 Guangdong and Yunnan, China
  • Ovia quinquedens (Dhali, Roy, Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2012) – India

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Ovia Sankaran, Malamel & Sebastian, 2017", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5585, retrieved 2023-10-15 
  2. Xu, Yong-Qiang; Wang, Lu-Yu; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng (2026-05-05). "A taxonomic study on eight species of the Ovia (Araneae, Lycosidae) from China" (in en). Zoosystematics and Evolution 102 (3): 731–750. doi:10.3897/zse.102.188856. ISSN 1860-0743. https://zse.pensoft.net/article/188856/. 
  3. Lu, Tian; Koh, Joseph K. H.; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng; Li, Shuqiang (2018-12-06). "A new Ovia species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Singapore, with the transfer of Pardosa alboannulata Yin et al., 1997" (in en). Zootaxa 4527 (3): 436–450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.12. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30651437. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4527.3.12. 

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