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Biton (arachnid)

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Biton is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.^[1]

Species

As of October 2022, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty-eight species:^[2]

Biton adamanteus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
Biton arenicola Lawrence, 1966 — Namibia
Biton bellulus (Pocock, 1902) — Egypt
Biton bernardi (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
Biton betschuanicus (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
Biton browni (Lawrence, 1965) — Namibia, South Africa
Biton brunneus Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
Biton brunnipes Pocock, 1896 — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Biton cataractus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
Biton crassidens Lawrence, 1935 — South Africa
Biton cursorius Roewer, 1933 — Togo
Biton divaricatus Roewer, 1933 — Togo
Biton ehrenbergi Karsch, 1880 — Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel, Italy (mainland), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
Biton fallax (Borelli, 1925) — Libya
Biton fessanus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
Biton fuscipes Pocock, 1897 — Ethiopia, Somalia
Biton fuscus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Algeria
Biton gaerdesi Roewer, 1954 — Namibia
Biton gariesensis (Lawrence, 1931) — South Africa
Biton haackei Lawrence, 1968 — South Africa
Biton habereri (Kraepelin, 1929) — Chad
Biton hottentottus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
Biton kolbei (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
Biton kraekolbei Wharton, 1981 — Namibia, South Africa
Biton laminatus (Pocock, 1903) — Yemen
Biton leipoldti (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
Biton lineatus (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa
Biton lividus Simon, 1882 — Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan
Biton longisetosus Lawrence, 1972 — South Africa
Biton magnifrons (Birula, 1905) — Ethiopia, Israel
Biton monodentatus Delle Cave, 1978 — Somalia
Biton mossambicus Roewer, 1954 — Mozambique
Biton namaqua (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
Biton ovambicus (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
Biton pallidus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
Biton pearsoni (Hewitt, 1914) — Namibia, South Africa
Biton persicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran
Biton philbyi Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
Biton pimenteli Frade, 1940 — Angola
Biton planirostris (Birula, 1941) — Yemen
Biton ragazzii (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan
Biton rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1914) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
Biton roeweri (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
Biton rossicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Biton sabulosus (Pocock, 1903) — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Biton schelkovnikovi (Birula, 1936) — Armenia, Azerbaijan
Biton schreineri (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
Biton schultzei (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
Biton simoni (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Somalia
Biton striatus (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia, South Africa
Biton subulatus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
Biton tarabulus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
Biton tauricus Roewer, 1941 — Turkey
Biton tenuifalcis Lawrence, 1962 — Namibia, South Africa
Biton tigrinus Pocock, 1898 — Kenya
Biton transvaalensis Lawrence, 1949 — South Africa
Biton triseriatus Lawrence, 1955 — Namibia, South Africa
Biton truncatidens Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
Biton tunetanus Simon, 1885 — Algeria, Israel, Libya, Tunisia
Biton turkestanus (Roewer, 1933) — China
Biton vachoni Lawrence, 1966 — Algeria
Biton velox Simon, 1885 — Ethiopia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia
Biton villiersi (Vachon, 1950) — Niger
Biton villosus Roewer, 1933 — Ethiopia, Somalia
Biton werneri Roewer, 1933 — Namibia
Biton wicki (Birula, 1915) — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
Biton xerxes (Roewer, 1933) — Iran
Biton zederbaueri (Werner, 1905) — Israel, Turkey

References

^ Karsch, Ferdinand (1880). "Zur Kenntniss der Galeodiden". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 46: 228–243. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.14406.
^ "Biton Karsch, 1880". World Solifugae Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.

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Biton

Biton (arachnid)

Species

References

Biton (arachnid): Brief Summary