Angaeus

Angaeus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Paraborboropactus.[2]

Angaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Angaeus
Thorell[1]
Type species
Angaeus pudicus
Species

11, see text

Synonyms
  • Paraborboropactus[2]

Species

As of June 2020 it contains eleven species, found in Asia:[1]

  • Angaeus canalis (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
  • Angaeus christae Benjamin, 2013 – Borneo
  • Angaeus comatulus Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
  • Angaeus lenticulosus Simon, 1903 – China, Vietnam
  • Angaeus liangweii (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
  • Angaeus pentagonalis Pocock, 1901 – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
  • Angaeus pudicus Thorell, 1881 (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas, Seram Island)
  • Angaeus rhombifer Thorell, 1890 – China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra), Borneo
  • Angaeus rhombus (Tang & Li, 2009) – China
  • Angaeus verrucosus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • Angaeus zhengi (Tang & Li, 2009) – China

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Angaeus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. Benjamin, S. P. (2013). "On the crab spider genus Angaeus Thorell, 1881 and its junior synonym Paraborboropactus Tang and Li, 2009 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3635: 71–80.
  3. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.

Further reading
  • Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2009). "Paraborboropactus gen. nov., with description of three new species of crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 34: 712–721.
  • Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 143–171.
  • Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68.
  • Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2703: 1–105.


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