Borboropactus

Borboropactus
Scientific classification
:	[[Template:Taxonomy/Borboropactus]]; Simon, 1884
Type species
	B. squalidus; Simon, 1884
Species
	16, see text

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Borboropactus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[2]

Species[edit]

As of June 2020^[update] it contains sixteen species, found in Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea:^[1]

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 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

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Gen. Borboropactus Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
↑ Simon, E. (1884). "Description d'une nouvelle famille de l'ordre des Araneae (Bradystichidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 28: 297–301.

Borboropactus

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