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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}<br />
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| taxon = Indoxysticus<br />
| image = Indian_crab_spider_(24366097925).jpg<br />
| image_caption = ''I. minutus''<br />
| authority = Benjamin & Jaleel, 2010<ref name=NMBE /><br />
| type_species = ''[[Indoxysticus minutus|I. minutus]]''<br />
| type_species_authority = ([[B. K. Tikader|Tikader]], 1960)<br />
| subdivision_ranks = Species<br />
| subdivision = {{Specieslist<br />
| ''[[Indoxysticus lumbricus|I. lumbricus]]''|<small>Tang & Li, 2010</small> – [[China]]<br />
| ''[[Indoxysticus minutus|I. minutus]]''|<small>(Tikader, 1960)</small> – [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]]<br />
| ''[[Indoxysticus tangi|I. tangi]]''|<small>Jin & Zhang, 2012</small> – China}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Indoxysticus''''' is a [[genus]] of Asian [[Thomisidae|crab spiders]] that was first described by S. P. Benjamin & Z. Jaleel in 2010.<ref name=Benj2010>{{cite journal| last1=Benjamin| first1=Suresh P.| last2=Jaleel| first2=Ziyard| year=2010| title=The genera ''Haplotmarus'' Simon, 1909 and ''Indoxysticus'' gen. nov.: two enigmatic genera of crab spiders from the Oriental region (Araneae: Thomisidae)| journal=Revue Suisse de Zoologie| pages=159–167| volume=117| issue=1| url=http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/ce/7c/89/ce7c8928fdca957072b6ba27eabd039a.pdf| accessdate=2015-07-31}}</ref> {{as of|2020|09}} it contains three species, all found in Asia: ''[[Indoxysticus lumbricus|I. lumbricus]]'', ''[[Indoxysticus minutus|I. minutus]]'', and ''[[Indoxysticus tangi|I. tangi]]''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Indoxysticus Benjamin & Jaleel, 2010| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-10-10| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3642| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> The genus differs from others in its family by the oval-shaped [[spermatheca]]e with well-defined chambers in females and by the broad-based [[Pedipalp|embolus]] in males.<ref name=Jin2012>{{cite journal| last=Jin| first=C.| last2=Zhang| first2=F.| year=2012| title=Re-examination of the crab spider species ''Oxytate minuta'' Tang, Yin et Peng, 2005 (Araneae: Thomisidae)| journal=Zootaxa| pages=64–67| volume=3588| url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03588p067f.pdf| accessdate=2015-07-31}}</ref><br />
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They live in vegetation as opposed to related genus ''[[Xysticus]]'', which lives on the ground.<ref name=Benj2010 /><br />
==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite journal| last=Sen| first=S.| display-authors=etal| year=2015| title=Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary| journal=World Scientific News| pages=1–339| volume=20}}<br />
*{{cite book| last=Yin| first=C. M.| display-authors=etal| year=2012| title=Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China| publisher=Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha| pages=1590}}<br />
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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]<br />
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[[Category:Spiders of China]]<br />
[[Category:Spiders of the Indian subcontinent]]<br />
[[Category:Thomisidae]]<br />
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