Pseudomaevia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1920.[2] As of August 2019 it contains only two species and one subspecies, found only in Australia, on the Polynesian Islands, and Tahiti: P. cognata, P. insulana, and P. i. aorai.[1] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "pseudo-" (ψευδής), meaning "false", and the salticid genus Maevia.[2]

Pseudomaevia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pseudomaevia
Rainbow, 1920[1]
Type species
P. cognata
Rainbow, 1920
Species

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Pseudomaevia Rainbow, 1920". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  2. ^ a b Rainbow, W. J. (1920). "Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands". Records of the South Australian Museum. 1: 229–272.