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Genus: Bavia Simon, 1877 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Bavia capistrata (C. L. Koch, 1846)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032458

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Described:

Distribution: China, Malaysia

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Maevia capistrata C. L. Koch, 1848, (1603) -

Taxonomic References

Maevia capistrata C. L. Koch, 1846: 76, f. 1331 (Dm) Original description

Bavia capistrata Żabka, 1988: 435, f. 37-39 (m, removed from S of Evarcha flavocincta)

Bavia capistrata Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016: 51, f. 5A-D, 6A-E (m, Df)

Bavia cf. capistrata Maddison et al., 2020b: 42, f. 29, 42-53 (mf)

References

Cao, Q., Li, S. Q. & Żabka, M. (2016). The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43-104. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466 -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P. Y. C., Kanesharatnam, N., Benjamin, S. P. & Kunte, K. (2020b). A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys 1004: 27-97. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526 -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1988). Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41(14): 421-479. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2020-12-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020b
2016-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016
2016-11-11	First description of female	Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016	Old value