''Servaea vestita'' is a species of jumping spider from

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. It is found in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Ludwig Koch in 1879, as ''Scaea vestita''. However, the genus name ''Scaea'' had already been used, so in 1888,

Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...

published the

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''Servaea'', and the species became ''Servaea vestita''. In 2012, Richardson and Gunter synonymized the species with '' Servaea incana''. This was rejected by

Jerzy Prószyński Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...

in 2017, a view accepted by the

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References

External links

Diagnostic drawings of ''S. vestita''
Salticidae Endemic fauna of Australia Spiders of Australia Spiders described in 1879 {{salticidae-stub