Servaea Simon, 1887

Richardson, Barry J. & Gunter, Nicole L., 2012, Revision of Australian jumping spider genus Servaea Simon 1887 (Aranaea: Salticidae) including use of DNA sequence data and predicted distributions, Zootaxa 3350, pp. 1-33 : 12

Servaea Simon, 1887

Type species: Scaea vestita L. Koch, 1879 by monotypy.

Scaea Koch, L., 1879: 1142 [junior homonym of Scaea Phillipi, 1844 (Mollusca)]. Servaea Simon, 1887: 186 [nom. nov. for Scaea L. Koch, 1879]

Diagnosis. Fissident, ocular quadrangle (equal or) narrower behind, frontal surface of chelicera round, male chelicera geniculate and bowed prolaterally with transverse ridges, epigynum clearly defined with paired fossae and clear median guide, female insemination duct hardly if at all evident, level with fossae, spermatheca large, rounded and within the margin of the fossa close to the posterior edge, embolus coiled in anticlockwise direction with single coil and pointed, tegular groove covers proximal part of embolus, tegulum clearly longer than wide, with posterior lobe. Fringing on male T1. The genus can be differentiated from Cytaea as the embolus is single-coiled rather than double coiled in the male and the insemination ducts are within rather than posterior to the fossae. Servaea can be differentiated from Euryattus as the tegulum has a posterior lobe and the insemination ducts are anterior to the spermatheca and pass towards the lateral edges of the fossae.