Laufeia

Laufeia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Superfamily: Salticoidea
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Laufeia
Simon, 1889
Type species
Laufeia aenea
Simon, 1889
Species

see text

Diversity
10 species

Laufeia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with Asian distribution, where they are found on shrubs and other plants.

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Relationships

Also most species of this genus are probably congeneric, they do probably not belong to the type species, L. aenea (Bohdanowicz & Proszynski, 1987).

Name

The genus name is possibly derived from Laufeia the mother of the Norse god, Loki.

Species

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