Biology:Parabomis

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Short description: Genus of spiders


Parabomis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Parabomis
Kulczyński, 1901
Type species
Parabomis levanderi
Kulczyński, 1901
Species

6, see text

Parabomis is a genus of spiders in the family Thomisidae. It was first described in 1901 by Władysław Kulczyński.[1]

Species

(As of May 2022) it contains six species, found only in Africa:[2]

  • Parabomis elsae Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020 – South Africa
  • Parabomis levanderi Kulczyński, 1901 – Eritrea
  • Parabomis martini Lessert, 1919 – Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • Parabomis megae Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020 – Zimbabwe
  • Parabomis pilosa Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020 – Botswana, South Africa
  • Parabomis wandae Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020 – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya

References

  1. Kulczyński, Władysław (1901). "Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta". Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 41: 1-64. 
  2. "Gen. Parabomis Kulczyński, 1901". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3677. Retrieved 25 May 2022. 

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