Orcevia

Orcevia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.[2] It was once considered a synonym of Laufeia,[3] but it was revalidated in 2019.[4]

Orcevia
Scientific classification
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
5, see text

Laufeia, circumscribed to include Orcevia, is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[5]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains five species, found only in Asia:[1]

• Orcevia eucola Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Orcevia keyserlingi Thorell, 1890 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
• Orcevia kuloni Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Java)
• Orcevia perakensis (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia, Indonesia (Java)
• Orcevia proszynskii (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988) – China

References

1. "Gen. Orcevia Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
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. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 30. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1.
4. Prószyński, J. (2019). "Character assassination: a personal witness account with a taxonomic note on the genus Laufeia s. lat. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 22: 122.
5. 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.