Orcevia

Orcevia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.[2] It was once considered a synonym of Laufeia,[3] but it was revalidated in 2019.[4]

Orcevia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Orcevia
Thorell, 1890[1]
Type species
O. keyserlingi
Thorell, 1890
Species

5, see text

Laufeia, circumscribed to include Orcevia, is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[5]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains five species, found only in Asia:[1]

References

  1. "Gen. Orcevia Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 30: 132–172.
  3. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 30. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1.
  4. Prószyński, J. (2019). "Character assassination: a personal witness account with a taxonomic note on the genus Laufeia s. lat. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 22: 122.
  5. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292.


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