''Leviea'' (
) is a
genus of Melanesian
jumping spiders. It was first described by
Wayne Maddison and T. Szűts in 2019,
and it contains only three species: ''
L. francesae'', ''
L. herberti'', and ''
L. lornae''.
The genus name and species epithets honor arachnologists
Herbert Walter Levi and his wife Lorna Rose Levi as well as their daughter Frances Levi.
It was erected in 2019 for three newly described species from
Papua New Guinea, and was placed in the
tribe Myrmarachnini within the
Salticoida
Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...
clade of
Salticinae
Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida.
Description
Members of the subfamily Sa ...
. However, they aren't as ant-like as most other species in the tribe.
See also
*
List of Salticidae genera
References
Salticidae genera
Spiders of New Guinea
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