Leviea

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| taxon = Leviea

|image= Leviea herberti (10.3897-zookeys.842.32970) Figures 5–20.jpg

|image_caption= Leviea herberti

| authority = Maddison & Szűts, 2019

| type_species = L. herberti

| type_species_authority = Maddison & Szűts, 2019

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

{{Specieslist

| Leviea francesae|Maddison & Szűts, 2019

| Leviea herberti|Maddison & Szűts, 2019

| Leviea lornae|Maddison & Szűts, 2019

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Leviea ({{IPAc-en||l|ɛ|v|iː|ɛ|æ}}) is a genus of Melanesian jumping spiders. It was first described by Wayne Maddison and T. Szűts in 2019, and {{as of|2022|03}} it contains only three species: L. francesae, L. herberti, and L. lornae. The genus name and species epithets honor arachnologists Herbert Walter Levi and his wife Lorna Rose Levi as well as their daughter Frances Levi.

It was erected in 2019 for three newly described species from Papua New Guinea, and was placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini within the Salticoida clade of Salticinae. However, they aren't as ant-like as most other species in the tribe.

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{{cite journal| title=Gen. Leviea Maddison & Szűts, 2019| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=26 March 2022| year=2022| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5734| doi=10.24436/2}}

{{cite journal| author-last=Maddison| author-first=W. P.| author2-last=Szűts| author2-first=T.| year=2019| journal=ZooKeys| title=Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini)| issue=842| pages=85–112| doi=10.3897/zookeys.842.32970| pmid=31130807| pmc=6517365| name-list-style=amp| doi-access=free| bibcode=2019ZooK..842...85M| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/14791}}

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Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of New Guinea

Leviea

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