Bavia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Salticinae
Clades: Salticoida
Tribus: Baviini
Genus: Bavia
Species: B. aericeps – B. albolineata – B. annamita – B. capistrata – B. decorata – B. exilis – B. fedor – B. gabrieli – B. hians – B. insularis – B. intermedia – B. kahariana – B. kairali – B. nessagyna – B. modesta – B. papakula – B. planiceps – B. sexpunctata – B. sinoamerica – B. smedleyi – B. sonsorol – B. suhartoi – B. thorelli – B. valida
Name

Bavia Simon, 1877

Type species: Bavia aericeps Eugène Simon, 1877
References
Primary references

Simon, E.L. 1877. Etudes arachnologiques. 5e Mémoire. IX. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Phillipines par MM. G. A. Baer et Laglaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 7: 53-96. Reference page.

Additional references

Barrion, A.T. 2000. A new species of the genus Bavia Simon, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the highlands of Sagada, Mountain Province, Luzon Island, Philippines. Philippine Entomologist 14: 53-60. Reference page.
Cao, Q., Li, S-Q. & Żabka, M. 2016. The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466. Reference page.
Lei, H. & Peng, X.-J., 2011: A new species of the genus Bavia (Araneae: Salticidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36 (2): Abstract and full article: [1].
Maddison, W.P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P.Y.C., Kaneshaatnam, N., Benjamin, S.P. & Kunte, K. 2020. A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys, 1004: 27–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526 Open access Reference page.
Malamel, J.J., Sankaran, P.M. & Sebastian, P.A. 2015. First record of the jumping spider genus Bavia Simon, 1877 from India, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4007(4): 596–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.4.11. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Prószyński, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2013. Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. III. Salticidae of Borneo, with comments on adjacent territories. Arthropoda Selecta 22(2): 113–144. PDF. Reference page.
Wang, H. & Zhang, F. 2020. The first recorded of the species Bavia annamita from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 5-8. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.003. Paywall. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [2]

Vernacular names
English: Bavia

Bavia is a genus of jumping spiders.
Description

Bavia species are around 6 to 11 millimetres (0.24 to 0.43 in) long in both sexes. Species of this genus are slender with long legs.[2]
Habits

Bavia is often found on the leaves of shrubs or lower tree branches.[2]
Distribution

Bavia is distributed throughout the Australasian region, with one isolated species found in Madagascar.
Species

As of January 2021, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
female B. sexpunctata

Bavia aericeps Simon, 1877 – Malaysia to Australia, Pacific Islands
Bavia albolineata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 – Madagascar
Bavia capistrata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Malaysia
Bavia decorata (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
Bavia fedor Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands
Bavia gabrieli Barrion, 2000 – Philippines
Bavia hians (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
Bavia intermedia (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines
Bavia maurerae (Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016)) – Philippines
Bavia nessagyna Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo)
Bavia planiceps (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines
Bavia sexpunctata (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia, Japan (Ryūkyū Islands) to Australia
Bavia sinoamerica Lei & Peng, 2011 – China
Bavia valida (Keyserling, 1882) – Queensland, Gilbert Islands

Bavia ludicra (Keyserling, 1882) was transferred to genus Sandalodes and synonymized with Sandalodes superbus in 2000.[3]

The name "Bavia kairali" has been used for a species found in India, but the name was not recognized by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2021.[1]
Footnotes

"Gen. Bavia Simon, 1877". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
Murphy & Murphy 2000: 297

Platnick 2007

References

Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.