''Maevia'' is a

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

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 ...

of the family

Salticidae 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 ...

(jumping spiders). Maevia appears to have been a large blanket genus in its beginnings, with not closely related species from the

New World The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: ...

and the region from India to the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West Melanesi ...

being lumped there. As the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is from North America, those that occur in the New World were left in the genus, with most others transferred to other genera. However, several species exist in Asia for which there has been no information since their description, often more than a hundred years ago, so transferring them to other genera proves difficult.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 270

Species

* '' Maevia albozonata'' Hasselt, 1882 –

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. ...

* '' Maevia expansa'' Barnes, 1955 – United States * '' Maevia gracilipes''

Taczanowski Taczanowski (Polish feminine: Taczanowska; plural: Taczanowscy) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family from Poznań bearing the Jastrzębiec coat of arms and the motto: ''Plus penser que dire''. They took their name from their ...

, 1878 –

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

* ''

Maevia inclemens ''Maevia inclemens'' or the dimorphic jumping spider is a relatively common and colorful jumping spider of North America. In the males there are polymorphism (biology), two forms, a very rare phenomenon in zoology. These use different courtship ...

'' (

Walckenaer Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer (25 December 1771 – 28 April 1852) was a French civil servant, writer, man of letters, and scientist. He was a polymath and wrote extensively on geography, natural history, and literature. Major contributio ...

, 1837) – USA, Canada * '' Maevia intermedia'' Barnes, 1955 – USA * '' Maevia quadrilineata'' Hasselt, 1882 – Sumatra * ''

Maevia susiformis ''Maevia'' is a spider genus (biology), genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Maevia appears to have been a large blanket genus in its beginnings, with not closely related species from the New World and the region from India to the M ...

'' Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru * '' Maevia trilineata'' Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru

Footnotes

References

* (1955): North American jumping spiders of the genus ''Maevia''. ''American Museum Novitates'' 1746
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* (1958): North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). ''American Museum Novitates'' 1867
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Marpissa ''Marpissa'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. Species it contains forty-one species, found in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, on the Polynesian Islands, and the Greater Anti ...

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Metacyrba ''Metacyrba'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is combined from Ancient Greek "after, beside" and the salticid genus ''Cyrba''. Species , it contains sev ...

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Menemerus ''Menemerus'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1868. They are long, flattened in shape, and very hairy, usually with brown and grayish hairs. Most species have white edges ...

'', ''Maevia'') * (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * (2008)
The world spider catalog
version 8.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''.

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