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.
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
- Laufeia aenea Simon, 1889 — China, Korea, Japan
- Laufeia aerihirta (Urquhart, 1888) — New Zealand
- Laufeia eucola (Thorell, 1890) — Sumatra
- Laufeia keyserlingi (Thorell, 1890) — Sumatra, Java
- Laufeia liujiapingensis Yang & Tang, 1997 — China
- Laufeia perakensis (Simon, 1901) — Malaysia, Java
- Laufeia proszynskii Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 — China
- Laufeia sasakii Ikeda, 1998 — Japan
- Laufeia scutigera Zabka, 1985 — Vietnam
- Laufeia sicus Wu & Yang, 2008 — China
References
- Bohdanowicz, A. & J. Prószyński. Systematic studies on East Palaearctic Salticidae (Araneae), IV. Salticidae of Japan. Annls zool. Warsz. 41: 43-151.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.