Camaricus Explained

Camaricus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887.^[1]

Species

it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Asia, and on New Caledonia:^[2]

• Camaricus bipunctatus Bastawade, 2002 – India
• Camaricus castaneiceps Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Camaricus chayani Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2017 – Bangladesh
• Camaricus cimex (Karsch, 1878) – East Africa
• Camaricus florae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Camaricus formosus Thorell, 1887 – India to Indonesia (Sumatra), China, Philippines
• Camaricus hastifer (Percheron, 1833) – Unknown
• Camaricus khandalaensis Tikader, 1980 – India
• Camaricus maugei (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – India to Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Krakatau)
• Camaricus mimus (Pavesi, 1895) – Ethiopia, East Africa
• Camaricus nigrotesselatus Simon, 1895 – Central, East, South Africa
• Camaricus parisukatus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Camaricus pulchellus Simon, 1903 – Vietnam
• Camaricus rinkae Biswas & Roy, 2005 – India
• Camaricus siltorsus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007 – India

Nomen dubium

• C. nigrotesselatus Strand, 1907

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• 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.
• Biswas. V.. Raychaudhuri. D.. 2017. New species of the genus Camaricus Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology. 255–265. 44. 2. 10.3329/bjz.v44i2.32765. free.
• Sen. S.. etal. 2015. Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News. 1–339. 20.
• Tikader. B. K.. 1980. Thomisidae (Crab-spiders). Fauna India. 1–247. 1.

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1887. Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 5–417. 25. Tamerlan_Thorell. Italian.
2. Gen. Camaricus Thorell, 1887. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-28. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.