Borboropactus Explained

Borboropactus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species, found in Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea:^[2]

• 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)

Nomen dubium

• B. cinerascens (Strand, 1907

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Benjamin. S. P.. 2011. Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 1–108. 3080. 10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
• Tang. G.. Li. S. Q.. 2010. Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 1–68. 2369. 10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
• Benjamin. S. P.. etal. 2008. Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Cladistics. 708–722. 24. 5. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x. 49532398. free.
• Book: Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Book: Barrion. A. T.. Litsinger. J. A.. 1995. Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + pp. 700.

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1884. Description d'une nouvelle famille de l'ordre des Araneae (Bradystichidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 297–301. 28. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Borboropactus Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-28. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.