Boliscus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[3][1] As of February 2019[update] it contains only three species.
| Boliscus | |
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| B. tuberculatus, male | |
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| B. tuberculatus, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Boliscus Thorell, 1891[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. tuberculatus (Simon, 1886)
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B. tuberculatus is the most studied and well known of the three. The other two, B. duricorius and B. decipiens, are only known from females found by Eugène Simon in 1880[4] and Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899,[5] respectively. In his 2016 publication in the Indian Journal of Arachnology, Pekka T. Lehtinen commented that this genus and its close relatives, including Corynethrix and possibly Boliscodes, need a taxonomic revision with the help of molecular analysis and that the absence of male specimens in two of the three species may make this difficult.[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Boliscus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ^ Benjamin, S. P.; Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. (2019). "Redescription of Boliscus decipiens, with a new synonym in Boliscus tuberculatus (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Arachnology. 18 (2): 129. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.129. S2CID 202727911.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (in Swedish). 24 (2): 1–149.
- ^ Simon, E. (1880). "Matériaux pour servir à une faun arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (in French). 23: 164–175.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1899). "On some new species of exotic Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 67 (2): 518–532. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1899.tb06872.x.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 163–165.