Laufeia Simon, 1889

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3581, pp. 53-80 : 62

Genus Laufeia Simon, 1889

Description. Small spiders. Body brown or dark brown, without distinctive large markings or stripes; carapace and abdomen covered with light colored scales. Male usually with a slightly sclerotized area on the dorsal abdomen. Chelicera usually with a bicuspid tooth on retromargin. Male palp with relatively wide retrolateral sperm duct loop; embolus long or short; embolic disc large or relatively small; proximal tegular lobe present. Epigynal window sometimes indistinct. Spermatheca of various shapes.

Remarks. Laufeia , Orcevia and Junxattus share similar somatic characters such as body form, color and cheliceral teeth pattern, but show considerate difference in genital structure ( Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold 2012). Unpublished molecular data suggest they fall into one clade.

Two species previously described as Laufeia are transferred to other genera in this paper: Laufeia liujiapingensis Yang & Tang, 1997 to Chinophrys ; Laufeia scutigera Żabka, 1985 to Foliabitus . Two new species from China and Malaysia are described here.