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Genus: Orcevia Thorell, 1890 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Orcevia sica (Wu & Yang, 2008)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041718

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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 (Wang060527-4) of Laufeia longapophysis - (Lei & Peng, 2012)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 1m (YHY30-2) of Laufeia longapophysis - (Lei & Peng, 2012)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1m (GKJ037-4) of Laufeia longapophysis - (Lei & Peng, 2012)
Holotype: Museum of Hebei University (MHBU), Baoding, China m - (Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Laufeia sicus Wu & Yang, 2008: 19, f. A-C (Dm; named after the noun sica = curved dagger) Original description

Laufeia longapophysis Lei & Peng, 2012: 9, f. 4, 8a-c (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045559]

Orcevia sica Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023: 15, f. 233-249 (m, Df, T from Laufeia, S of Laufeia longapophysis)

Orcevia sica Yu et al., 2024a: 620, f. 1m (m)

References

Lei, H. & Peng, X. J. (2012). Four new species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. Oriental Insects 46(1): 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00305316.2011.648905 -- Show included taxa

Wu, A. G. & Yang, Z. Z. (2008). One new species of the genus Laufeia from Yunnan, China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 17: 19-20. -- Show included taxa

Yu, K., Maddison, W. P. & Zhang, J. X. (2023). Taxonomic revision of Orcevia Thorell, 1890, with description of fifteen new species (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini). Zootaxa 5384(1): 1-79. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5384.1.1 [[incl. Erratum: Zootaxa 5507(4) (2024): 597-598. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.4.7]] -- Show included taxa

Yu, K., Zhang, F., Wang, X. Z., Maddison, W. P. & Zhang, J. X. (2024a). Robust phylogenomics settles controversies of classification and reveals evolution of male embolic complex of the Laufeia clade (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini). Cladistics 40(6): 618-635. doi: 10.1111/cla.12597 -- 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
2024-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Yu et al., 2024a
2023-12-23	Species synonymy	Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023		Orcevia longapophysis synonymized with Orcevia sicus
2023-12-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023
2023-12-23	Species transferred to new genus	Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023		Species transferred from Laufeia to Orcevia
2023-12-23	First description of female	Yu, Maddison & Zhang, 2023	Old value