Orcevia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.[2] Laufeia, circumscribed to include Orcevia, is placed in the tribe Euophryini in the Salticoida clade of Salticinae.[3] It was once considered a synonym of Laufeia,[4] but it was revalidated in 2019.[5]

Orcevia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Orcevia
Thorell, 1890[1]
Type species
O. keyserlingi
Thorell, 1890
Species

6, see text

Species

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As of March 2022 it contains six species:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Orcevia Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 30: 132–172.
  3. ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
  4. ^ Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 1–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID 25947489.
  5. ^ Prószyński, J. (2019). "Character assassination: a personal witness account with a taxonomic note on the genus Laufeia s. lat. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 22: 117–127. doi:10.37828/em.2019.22.9. S2CID 211221893.

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