| Laufeia | |
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| 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 |
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| Species | |
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| 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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Also most species of this genus are probably congeneric, they do probably not belong to the type species, L. aenea (Bohdanowicz & Proszynski, 1987).
The genus name is possibly derived from Laufeia the mother of the Norse god, Loki.