Borboropactus

Borboropactus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]

Borboropactus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Borboropactus
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
B. squalidus
Simon, 1884
Species

16, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains sixteen species, found in Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea:[1]

  • Borboropactus asper (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884)Sri Lanka
  • Borboropactus australis (Lawrence, 1937)South Africa
  • Borboropactus biprocessus Tang, Yin & Peng, 2012China
  • Borboropactus bituberculatus Simon, 1884 – China, Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
  • Borboropactus brevidens Tang & Li, 2010 – China
  • Borboropactus cinerascens (Doleschall, 1859)Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), New Guinea, Philippines
  • Borboropactus edentatus Tang & Li, 2010 – China
  • Borboropactus elephantus (Tikader, 1966)India
  • Borboropactus javanicola (Strand, 1913) – Indonesia (Java)
  • Borboropactus jiangyong Yin, Peng, Yan & Kim, 2004 – China
  • Borboropactus longidens Tang & Li, 2010 – China
  • Borboropactus noditarsis (Simon, 1903)West Africa
  • Borboropactus nyerere Benjamin, 2011Tanzania
  • Borboropactus silvicola (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
  • Borboropactus squalidus Simon, 1884 (type) – West, East Africa
  • Borboropactus vulcanicus (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Java)

In synonymy:

  • B. bangkongeus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Borboropactus cinerascens (Doleschall, 1859)
  • B. divergens (Hogg, 1914) = Borboropactus bituberculatus Simon, 1884
  • B. hainanus Song, 1993 = Borboropactus bituberculatus Simon, 1884
  • B. mindoroensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Borboropactus cinerascens (Doleschall, 1859)
  • B. umaasaeus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Borboropactus cinerascens (Doleschall, 1859)

Nomen dubium

  • B. cinerascens (Strand, 1907

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Borboropactus Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. Simon, E. (1884). "Description d'une nouvelle famille de l'ordre des Araneae (Bradystichidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 28: 297–301.

Further reading

  • Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 1–108.
  • Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68.
  • Benjamin, S. P.; et al. (2008). "Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Cladistics. 24 (5): 708–722.
  • Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  • Barrion, A. T.; Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + pp. p. 700.


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