Borboropactus

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Borboropactus
Borboropactus jiangyong (10.3897-zookeys.870.35230) Figure 1.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Borboropactus
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species

Simon, 1884
Species

16, see text

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

Species[]

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

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[]

  • List of Thomisidae species

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "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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