Maevia is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Maevia appears to have been a large blanket genus in its beginnings, with not closely related species from the New World and the region from India to the Moluccas being lumped there. As the type species is from North America, those that occur in the New World were left in the genus, with most others transferred to other genera. However, several species exist in Asia for which there has been no information since their description, often more than a hundred years ago, so transferring them to other genera proves difficult.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 270
Species Maevia albozonata Hasselt, 1882 – Sumatra Maevia expansa Barnes, 1955 – United States Maevia gracilipes Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru Maevia inclemens (Walckenaer, 1837) – USA, Canada Maevia intermedia Barnes, 1955 – USA Maevia quadrilineata Hasselt, 1882 – Sumatra Maevia susiformis Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru Maevia trilineata Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
Footnotes
References (1955): North American jumping spiders of the genus Maevia. American Museum Novitates 1746. PDF (1958): North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum Novitates 1867. PDF Abstract (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia) (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links Picture of M. expansa Picture of M. inclemens Picture of M. michelsoni — another one Picture of Maevia species (free for noncommercial use)