''Bavia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

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

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n region, with one isolated species found in

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Species

, the

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

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

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Islands * '' Bavia albolineata'' Peckham & Peckham, 1885 –

* '' Bavia capistrata'' ( C. L. Koch, 1846) – Malaysia * ''

Bavia decorata ''Bavia'' is a genus 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 ...

'' ( 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 list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...

* ''

Bavia fedor ''Bavia'' is a genus of Salticidae, 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 shru ...

'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 –

Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...

* '' Bavia gabrieli'' Barrion, 2000 –

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* '' 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 ''Bavia'' is a genus of Salticidae, 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 shru ...

'' (

Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall (; ; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theologian Michael Do ...

, 1859) – Indonesia (

), Malaysia, Japan (

Ryūkyū Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands ( Ōsumi, Tokara and Amami) and Okinawa Prefecture ( Daitō, Miyako, Y ...

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

Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands (;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 name applied o ...

''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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