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Borboropactus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.
Species
As of July 2022 it contains seventeen species, found in Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea:
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
References
Further reading
Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 1–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
Benjamin, S. P.; et al. (2008). "Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Cladistics. 24 (5): 708–722. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x. S2CID 49532398.
Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Barrion, A. T.; Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + pp. p. 700.