Borboropactus

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

Species

As of July 2022 it contains seventeen 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 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