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Borboropactus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Borboropactus Simon, 1884
Type species
B. squalidus Simon, 1884
Species
17, see text

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

Species

As of July 2022 it contains seventeen species, found in Africa, Asia, and Papua New Guinea:

• 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 semenchenkoi (Omelko & Marusik, 2022) – Malaysia (Borneo)
• 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

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

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

Further reading

• Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 1–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
• Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
• Benjamin, S. P.; et al. (2008). "Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Cladistics. 24 (5): 708–722. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x. S2CID 49532398.
• Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Barrion, A. T.; Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + pp. p. 700.

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