Biology:Bocus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Bocus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Bocus
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
B. excelsus
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species
  • Wanless, 1978 – Philippines Deeleman-Reinhold & Floren, 2003 – Borneo
  • B. excelsus B. angusticollis
  • Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Philippines B. philippinensis

Bocus is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] (As of June 2019), it contains only three species, which are found only in the Philippines and Indonesia: B. angusticollis, B. excelsus, and B. philippinensis.[1] They are indistinguishable from the related genus Myrmarachne without the help of a microscope.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Bocus Peckham & Peckham, 1892. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2544. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2 (1): 1–84. 
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). "An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia". Malaysian Nature Society (Kuala Lumpur): 304. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1481615 entry