Leviea
Leviea herberti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Leviea
Maddison & Szűts, 2019[1]
Type species
L. herberti
Maddison & Szűts, 2019
Species
  • Leviea francesae Maddison & Szűts, 2019
  • Leviea herberti Maddison & Szűts, 2019
  • Leviea lornae Maddison & Szűts, 2019

Leviea (/lɛviːɛæ/[2]) is a genus of Melanesian jumping spiders. It was first described by Wayne Maddison and T. Szűts in 2019,[2] and As of March 2022 it contains only three species: L. francesae, L. herberti, and L. lornae.[1] The genus name and species epithets honor arachnologists Herbert Walter Levi and his wife Lorna Rose Levi as well as their daughter Frances Levi.[2]

It was erected in 2019 for three newly described species from Papua New Guinea, and was placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini within the Salticoida clade of Salticinae. However, they aren't as ant-like as most other species in the tribe.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Leviea Maddison & Szűts, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Maddison, W. P. & Szűts, T. (2019). "Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini)". ZooKeys (842): 85–112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.842.32970. PMC 6517365. PMID 31130807.
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