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

Bavia decorata (Thorell, 1890)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032459

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra)

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

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Taxonomic References

Marptusa decorata Thorell, 1890c: 161 (Df) Original description

Bavia decorata Simon, 1901a: 461

Bavia decorata Maddison et al., 2020b: 91 (incertae sedis)

References

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

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890c). Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 132-172. -- 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	Comment
2020-12-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020b