Angaeus Explained

Angaeus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Paraborboropactus.^[2]

Species

it contained twelve species, found in Asia:^[3]

• Angaeus canalis (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
• Angaeus christae Benjamin, 2013 – Borneo
• Angaeus comatulus Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
• Angaeus lenticulosus Simon, 1903 – China, Vietnam
• Angaeus liangweii (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
• Angaeus pentagonalis Pocock, 1901 – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
• Angaeus pudicus Thorell, 1881 (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas, Seram Island)
• Angaeus rhombifer Thorell, 1890 – China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra), Borneo
• Angaeus rhombus (Tang & Li, 2009) – China
• Angaeus verrucosus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Angaeus xieluae (Liu, 2022) – China
• Angaeus zhengi (Tang & Li, 2009) – China

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Tang. G.. Li. S. Q.. 2009. Paraborboropactus gen. nov., with description of three new species of crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 712–721. 34.
• Lehtinen. P. T.. 2016. Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology. 143–171. 5.
• Tang. G.. Li. S. Q.. 2010. Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 1–68. 2369. 10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
• Tang. G.. Li. S. Q.. 2010. Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 1–105. 2703. 10.11646/zootaxa.2703.1.1. 16523262.

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17. 1–727.
2. Benjamin. S. P.. 2013. On the crab spider genus Angaeus Thorell, 1881 and its junior synonym Paraborboropactus Tang and Li, 2009 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 3635. 71–80. 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.7. 26097932.
3. Gen. Angaeus Thorell, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. 2022-12-20 . Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.