Bassaniana, commonly called bark crab spiders, is a widespread genus of crab spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1928.[2]

Bassaniana
B. versicolor
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Bassaniana
Strand, 1928[1]
Type species
B. versicolor
(Keyserling, 1880)
Species

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Species

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As of November 2021 it contains seven species, found in Europe, Asia, and North America:[1]

In synonymy:

  • B. aemula ) = Bassaniana versicolor (Keyserling, 1880)
  • B. albomaculatus (Kulczyński, 1891) = Bassaniana baudueri (Simon, 1877)
  • B. japonicus (Simon, 1886) = Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879)
  • B. pichoni (Schenkel, 1963) = Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879)
  • B. typica (Kishida, 1913) = Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Bassaniana Strand, 1928". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  2. ^ Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, I-II". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 92 (A8): 30–75.
  3. ^ Im, Jae Seong; Kim, Seung Tae; Lee, Sue Yeon (17 November 2021). "Bassaniana birudis sp. nov., a new crab spider (Araneae, Thomisidae) from South Korea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e73109. doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e73109. PMC 8613144. PMID 34840507.

Further reading

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  • Bowling, T. A.; Sauer, R. J. (1975). "A taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Coriarachne (Araneida, Thomisidae) for North America north of Mexico". Journal of Arachnology. 2: 183–193.
  • Gertsch, W. J. (1953). "The spider genera Xysticus, Coriarachne and Oxyptila (Thomisidae, Misumeninae) in North America". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 102: 415–482.
  • Ono, H. (1988). A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Japan. National Science Museum, Tokyo. p. 252.
  • Gertsch, W. J. (1939). "A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 76: 277–442.
  • Gertsch, W. J. (1932). "A new generic name for Coriarachne versicolor Keyserling, with new species". American Museum Novitates (563): 1–7.
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