Boliscus

Boliscus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[3][1] As of February 2019 it contains only three species.

Boliscus
B. tuberculatus, male
B. tuberculatus, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Boliscus
Thorell, 1891[1]
Type species
B. tuberculatus
(Simon, 1886)
Species
Synonyms[1]

B. tuberculatus is the most studied and well known of the three. The other two, B. duricorius and B. decipiens, are only known from females found by Eugène Simon in 1880[4] and Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899,[5] respectively. In his 2016 publication in the Indian Journal of Arachnology, Pekka T. Lehtinen commented that this genus and its close relatives, including Corynethrix and possibly Boliscodes, need a taxonomic revision with the help of molecular analysis and that the absence of male specimens in two of the three species may make this difficult.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Boliscus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. Benjamin, S. P.; Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. (2019). "Redescription of Boliscus decipiens, with a new synonym in Boliscus tuberculatus (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Arachnology. 18 (2): 129.
  3. Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (in Swedish). 24 (2): 1–149.
  4. Simon, E. (1880). "Matériaux pour servir à une faun arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (in French). 23: 164–175.
  5. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1899). "On some new species of exotic Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 67 (2): 518–532.
  6. Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 163–165.


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