''Bavia'' is a

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of jumping spiders.

Description

''Bavia'' species are around long in both sexes. Species of this genus are slender with long legs.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 297

Habits

''Bavia'' is often found on the leaves of shrubs or lower tree branches.

Distribution

''Bavia'' is distributed throughout the

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologica ...

n region, with one isolated species found in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepted the following species: * '' Bavia aericeps'' Simon, 1877 –

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, Pacific Islands * '' Bavia albolineata''

Peckham & Peckham George Williams Peckham (March 23, 1845 – January 10, 1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (December 19, 1854 – February 11, 1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachno ...

, 1885 –

* '' Bavia capistrata'' (

C. L. Koch Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born ...

, 1846) – Malaysia * '' Bavia decorata'' ( Thorell, 1890) –

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

* '' Bavia fedor'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands * '' Bavia gabrieli'' Barrion, 2000 –

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

* '' Bavia hians'' (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra * '' Bavia intermedia'' (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines * '' Bavia maurerae'' (Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016)) – Philippines * '' Bavia nessagyna'' Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo) * '' Bavia planiceps'' (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines * '' Bavia sexpunctata'' (

Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall ( hu, Doleschall Lajos; sk, Karol Ľudovít Doležal; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theolo ...

, 1859) – Indonesia (

), Malaysia, Japan ( Ryūkyū Islands) to Australia * '' Bavia sinoamerica'' Lei & Peng, 2011 – China * '' Bavia valida'' (Keyserling, 1882) – Queensland,

Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...

''Bavia ludicra'' (Keyserling, 1882) was transferred to genus '' Sandalodes'' and synonymized with '' Sandalodes superbus'' in 2000.Platnick 2007 The name "'' Bavia kairali''" has been used for a species found in India, but the name was not recognized by the World Spider Catalog .

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * (2007)
The world spider catalog
version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.

External links

* Salticidae.org

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