Pharta Explained

Pharta is a genus of crab spiders, family Thomisidae, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.^[1]

Species

, it contains ten Asian species:^[2]

• Pharta bimaculata Thorell, 1891 – Malaysia, Singapore
• Pharta brevipalpus (Simon, 1903) – China, Vietnam, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
• Pharta gongshan (Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006) – China
• Pharta indica Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2012 – India
• Pharta koponeni Benjamin, 2014 – Thailand
• Pharta lingxiufengica (Liu, 2022) – China
• Pharta nigra (Tang, Griswold & Peng, 2009) – Myanmar
• Pharta sudmannorum Benjamin, 2014 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Pharta tangi Wang, Mi & Peng, 2016 – China
• Pharta tengchong (Tang, Griswold & Yin, 2009) – China

Notes and References

1. Swedish. Thorell. T.. 1891. Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24. 2. 1–149.
2. Web site: Thomisidae. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2017-03-20.