''Maevia'' is a

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of the family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

(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 often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 3 ...

and the region from India to the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located eas ...

being lumped there. As the

type species In 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 species that contains the biological type specimen ...

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 sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

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

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, 1878 –

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* ''

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, ...

'' (

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, 1837) – USA, Canada * '' Maevia intermedia'' Barnes, 1955 – USA * '' Maevia quadrilineata'' Hasselt, 1882 – Sumatra * '' Maevia susiformis'' Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru * ''

Maevia trilineata ''Maevia'' is a spider 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 Moluccas being lum ...

'' 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. The name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village. Species it contains fifty-one species, found in South America, Asia, Europe, the Unite ...

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Metacyrba ''Metacyrba'' is a genus of 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 seven species an ...

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Menemerus ''Menemerus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by 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 on the thorax. The abdome ...

'', ''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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