''Servaea vestita'' is a species of
jumping spider from
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
. It is found in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.
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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 replacement name
In biological nomenclature, a ''nomen novum'' (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a scientific name that is created specifically to replace another scientific name, but only w ...
''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 World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
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References
External links
Diagnostic drawings of ''S. vestita''
Salticidae
Endemic fauna of Australia
Spiders of Australia
Spiders described in 1879
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