Bavirecta is a genus of Asian jumping spiders first described by N. Kanesharatnam & Suresh P. Benjamin in 2018.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1] It was placed in the tribe Baviini,[2] part of the clade Salticoida of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

Bavirecta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Bavirecta
Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018[1]
Type species
B. flavopuncta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018
Species

See text.

Species edit

As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog recognizes two species:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Bavirecta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. ^ a b Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2018). "A new genus and three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka". European Journal of Taxonomy (444): 1–24. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.444.
  3. ^ 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. S2CID 85680279.