Cytaea levii is a species of jumping spider.
Cytaea levii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Cytaea |
Species: | C. levii
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Binomial name | |
Cytaea levii Peng & Li, 2002
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Appearance
editThe species is allied to C. alburna.
Name
editCytaea levii is named in honor of H. W. Levi, a mentor of one of the first describers at Harvard University.
Distribution
editCytaea levii is only known from Taiwan.
References
edit- Xian-Jin Peng and Shu-Qiang Li (2002): Four new and two newly recorded species of Taiwanese jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) deposited in the United States. Zoological Studies 41(3): 337–345. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.