Servaea Explained

Servaea is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.^[1] S. murina females are about long.^[2]

Species

it contains eight species found in Australia, with one species reported from Java:^[3]

• Servaea incana (Karsch, 1878) (type) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Servaea melaina Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Servaea murina Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java)
• Servaea narraweena Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Eastern Australia
• Servaea spinibarbis Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Servaea vestita (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania)
• Servaea villosa (Keyserling, 1881) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
• Servaea zabkai Richardson & Gunter, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)

External links

• Diagnostic drawings of S. villosa

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1888. Etudes sur le arachnides de l'Asie méridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta). II. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Andaman par M. R. D. Oldham. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 282–287. 56. Eugène Simon.
2. Book: Murphy. Frances. Murphy. John. 2000. An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society.
3. Gen. Servaea Simon, 1888. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.