World Spider Catalog

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

Bavia sinoamerica Lei & Peng, 2011

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044213

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Described:

Distribution: China

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m - (Lei & Peng, 2011)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 1m - (Lei & Peng, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Bavia sinoamerica Lei & Peng, 2011: 218, f. 1-4 (Dm) Original description

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

References

Lei, H. & Peng, X. J. (2011). A new species of the genus Bavia (Araneae, Salticidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36(2): 218-220. -- 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

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