Bassaniodes Explained

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

Species

it contains thirty-nine species and one subspecies, found in Africa, Europe, and Asia:^[1]

• Bassaniodes adzharicus (Mcheidze, 1971) – Georgia
• Bassaniodes anatolicus (Demir, Aktaş & Topçu, 2008) – Turkey
• Bassaniodes blagoevi Naumova, 2020 – Albania
• Bassaniodes bliteus (Simon, 1875) – Mediterranean
• Bassaniodes bufo (Dufour, 1820) – Mediterranean
• Bassaniodes canariensis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes caperatoides (Levy, 1976) – Israel
• Bassaniodes caperatus (Simon, 1875) – Mediterranean, Turkey, Ukrain, Russia (Caucasus)
• Bassaniodes clavulus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes cribratus (Simon, 1885) – Mediterranean, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, China, Korea
• Bassaniodes dolpoensis (Ono, 1978) – Nepal, China
• Bassaniodes egenus (Simon, 1886) – West Africa
• Bassaniodes falx (Wunderlich, 2022) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes ferus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Cyprus, Egypt, Israel
• Bassaniodes fienae (Jocqué, 1993) – Spain
• Bassaniodes fuerteventurensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes graecus (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Balkans, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Israel, Iraq
• Bassaniodes grohi (Wunderlich, 1992) – Madeira
• Bassaniodes hariaensis (Wunderlich, 2022) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes lalandei (Audouin, 1826) – Mediterranean, Azerbaijan
• Bassaniodes lanzarotensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is., Savage Is.
• Bassaniodes loeffleri (Roewer, 1955) – Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
• Bassaniodes madeirensis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Madeira
• Bassaniodes obesus (Thorell, 1875) – Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
• Bassaniodes ovadan (Marusik & Logunov, 1995) – Turkmenistan
• Bassaniodes ovcharenkoi (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Central Asia
• Bassaniodes pinocorticalis (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is.
• Bassaniodes pseudorectilineus (Wunderlich, 1995) – Greece, Turkey
• Bassaniodes rectilineus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iran
• Bassaniodes robustus (Hahn, 1832) – Europe to Central Asia
• Bassaniodes sardiniensis (Wunderlich, 1995) – Italy (Sardinia)
• Bassaniodes sinaiticus (Levy, 1999) – Egypt
• Bassaniodes socotrensis Pocock, 1903 (type) – Yemen (Socotra)
• Bassaniodes squalidus (Simon, 1883) – Canary Is., Madeira
• Bassaniodes tenebrosus (Šilhavý, 1944) – East Mediterranean
  • Bassaniodes t. ohridensis (Šilhavý, 1944) – North Macedonia
• Bassaniodes tristrami (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Middle East
• Bassaniodes turlan (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Central Asia
• Bassaniodes ulkan (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Russia (Europe), Kyrgyzstan
• Bassaniodes xizangensis (Tang & Song, 1988) – China

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Breitling. R.. 2019. A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini). Ecologica Montenegrina. 198–206. 20. 10.37828/em.2019.20.16. 108977575. free.
• Levy. G.. 1976. The spider genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology. 1–37. 25.
• 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. 749–774. 4. 1994.
  • Book: Wunderlich, J.. 1987. Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen. 435.

Notes and References

1. Gen. Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-28. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.