Servaea murina is the only species of the jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

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Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 Servaea found outside of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is endemic

Endemic (ecology)

Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, all species of lemur are endemic to the...

 to Java

Java

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Description

The species is described from the female only, which is about 8 mm long. The carapace is longish and mainly black, with a silky pellow pubescence and some long black hairs. The flattish broad oval abdomen is brownish with variable dark marks and a silky yellow pubescence. The first pair of legs is dark brown, the others are yellow with dark rings. All show the same yellow pubescence and long hairs.

External links

• Description of S. murina