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Bavia aericeps

a jumping spider

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: a jumping spider

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Mangamanga (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: Malaya - Philippines - Marquesas, Hawai‘i

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native?, Introduced?; Land, lowlands - mountains; vegetation or tree trunks, occasionally buildings

KEY FEATURES: To 13mm BodyL. CEPHALOTHORAX reddish-brown, darker in eye region. A transverse white bar behind eyes and a few white spots on posterior slope. ABDOMEN Relatively elongate, narrow, and somewhat pointed behind. With three longitudinal stripes, the median one light, lateral ones dark, followed by three pairs of small spots. LEGS First pair conspicuously large and dark, carried extending forward. WEB None.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P					P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Bavia aericeps Simon, 1877
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; ARACHNIDA; Araneae (=Araneida); Araneomorphae; SALTICIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: listed (BJM57); 1 female, 1 immature (BJM60). Pukapuka: 1 male, 2 immature (BJM55); specimens+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Bavia aericeps, PK03, PK50, PK54 & PK78 confirmed J.Beatty 3/2005.

References:
Special Reference: Marples, B.J. 1955. Spiders of some Pacific Islands. Pacific Science. v.IX:69-76.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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