Bavia Explained

Bavia is a genus of jumping spiders.

Description

Bavia species are around 6to long in both sexes. Species of this genus are slender with long legs.^[1]

Bavia is often found on the leaves of shrubs or lower tree branches.^[1]

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

, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

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.^[2]

The name "Bavia kairali" has been used for a species found in India, but the name was not recognized by the World Spider Catalog .

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