Borboropactus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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Species edit
As of July 2022[update] it contains seventeen 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, 2012 – China
- 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, 2011 – Tanzania
- Borboropactus semenchenkoi (Omelko & Marusik, 2022) – Malaysia (Borneo)
- 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)
- B. cinerascens (Strand, 1907
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 edit
- Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 1–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
- Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
- Benjamin, S. P.; et al. (2008). "Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Cladistics. 24 (5): 708–722. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x. S2CID 49532398.
- 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.