Biology:Servaea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Servaea
Servaea.vestita.female.png
female S. vestita
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Servaea
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
S. incana
(Karsch, 1878)
Species

8, see text

Servaea is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.[2] S. murina females are about 8 millimetres (0.31 in) long.[3]

Species

(As of August 2019) it contains eight species found in Australia , with one species reported from Java:[1]

  • Servaea incana (Karsch, 1878) (type) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Servaea melaina Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Servaea murina Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java)
  • Servaea narraweena Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Eastern Australia
  • Servaea spinibarbis Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Servaea vestita (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania)
  • Servaea villosa (Keyserling, 1881) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
  • Servaea zabkai Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Servaea Simon, 1888. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2956. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  2. Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes sur le arachnides de l'Asie méridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta). II. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Andaman par M. R. D. Oldham". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 56: 282–287. 
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q983923 entry