Bassaniodes is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1903.[3]

Bassaniodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Bassaniodes
Pocock, 1903[1]
Type species
B. socotrensis
Pocock, 1903
Species

39, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Proxysticus Dalmas, 1922[2]

Species edit

As of July 2022 it contains thirty-nine species and one subspecies, found in Africa, Europe, and Asia:[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (2002), "Generic revision of some thomisids related to Xysticus C.L.Koch, 1835 and Ozyptila Simon, 1864", in Toft, S. (ed.), European Arachnology 2000: Proceedings of the 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology, p. 322
  3. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1903), "Arachnida", in Forbes, H. O. (ed.), The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri

Further reading edit

  • Breitling, R. (2019). "A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 20: 198–206. doi:10.37828/em.2019.20.16. S2CID 108977575.
  • Levy, G. (1976). "The spider genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) in Israel". Israel Journal of Zoology. 25: 1–37.
  • Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Zur Kenntnis west-paläarktischer Arten der Gattungen Psammitis Menge 1875, Xysticus C. L. Koch 1835 und Ozyptila Simon 1864 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 749–774.
  • Levy, G. (1985), "Araneae: Thomisidae", Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II
  • Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen. p. 435.