Alcimochthes

Alcimochthes is a genus of Asian crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.[2] As of June 2020 it contains three species, found in eastern Asia: A. limbatus, A. melanophthalmus, and A. meridionalis.[1]

Alcimochthes
A. limbatus, male
A. limbatus, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Alcimochthes Simon, 1885[1]
Type species
A. limbatus Simon, 1885
Species
A. limbatus Simon, 1885 – Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Japan A. melanophthalmus Simon, 1903 – Vietnam A. meridionalis Tang & Li, 2009 – China

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. "Gen. Alcimochthes Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
2. Simon, E. (1885). "Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recueillis en 1884 dans la presqu'île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Arachnides recueillis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 10: 436–462.

Further reading

• Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68.
• Ileperuma Arachchi, I. S.; Benjamin, S. P. (2019). "The crab spider genus Tarrocanus Simon, 1895 with notes on the genera Alcimochthes Simon, 1895 and Domatha Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 4613 (3): 587–593.
• Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 1590.
• Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2009). "Three new crab spiders from Xishuangbanna rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2109: 45–58.
• Ono, H. (2009). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa. p. 739.