Leviea
| Leviea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Leviea Maddison & Szűts, 2019[1] |
| Species | |
Leviea (/lɛviːɛæ/[2]) is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae. The three described species are all native to Papua New Guinea.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Leviea was erected in 2019 for three newly described species from Papua New Guinea. The genus name and the epithets of the three species honour Herbert Walter Levi and his wife Lorna Rose Levi (both arachnologists), as well as their daughter Frances Levi.[2] Although placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini,[2] part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Wayne Maddison's 2015 classification of the Salticidae,[3] Leviea species are not antlike as are most other species in the tribe.[2]
Species
As of September 2020[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]
- Leviea francesae Maddison & Szűts, 2019 – Papua New Guinea
- Leviea herberti Maddison & Szűts, 2019 (type species) – Papua New Guinea
- Leviea lornae Maddison & Szűts, 2019 – Papua New Guinea
References
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Leviea Maddison & Szűts, 2019", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-09-04
- ^ a b c d Maddison, W.P. & Szűts, T. (2019), "Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini)", ZooKeys, 842: 85–112, doi:10.3897/zookeys.842.32970
- ^ 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