Bavia aericeps
Appearance
Bavia aericeps | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Bavia |
Species: | B. aericeps
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Binomial name | |
Bavia aericeps Simon, 1877
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Synonyms | |
Acompse suavis |
Bavia aericeps is the type species of the jumping spider genus Bavia. In its distribution range it is the most commonly found species of its genus.
Description
[edit]The cephalothorax is brown, with some white hairs and patches, a darker eye region and black eye surrounds. The long opisthosoma is also brown, with dark brown patches and small white dots running along its length in males, and a broad median yellow stripe in females. The slender legs are yellowish-brown with dark brown femora, with the exception of the first pair, which is long, robust, and held in a way resembling a scorpion.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Bavia aericeps is found from Malaysia to Australia, and on several Pacific Islands.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 297
References
[edit]- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
[edit]- Salticidae.org: Photograph