Bavia aericeps

Taxobox
name = "Bavia aericeps"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Salticidae
genus = "Bavia"
species = "B. aericeps"
binomial = "Bavia aericeps"
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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

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. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 297]

Distribution

"B. aericeps" is found from Malaysia to Australia, and on several Pacific Islands.

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/bavia/aeri-jph.htm Photograph]