Biology:Blossia

Short description: Genus of camel spiders

Blossia
Blossia falcifera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Solifugae
Family:	Daesiidae
Genus:	Blossia Simon, 1880
Type species
Blossia spinosa Simon, 1880
Species
59, see text

Blossia is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Eugène Simon in 1880.

Species

(As of October 2022), the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following fifty-nine species:

• Blossia aegyptica (Roewer, 1933) — Egypt, Israel
• Blossia albocaudata Levy & Shulov, 1964 — Israel
• Blossia alticursor Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
• Blossia anatolica (Roewer, 1941) — Turkey
• Blossia angolensis (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
• Blossia arabica (Roewer, 1933) — Yemen
• Blossia brincki (Lawrence, 1955) — South Africa
• Blossia clunigera Kraepelin, 1908 — Namibia, South Africa
• Blossia costata (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
• Blossia crepidulifera Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
• Blossia ebneri (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Morocco
• Blossia echinata Purcell, 1903 — South Africa
• Blossia electa Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
• Blossia falcifera Kraepelin, 1908 — Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Blossia filicornis Hewitt, 1914 — Namibia
• Blossia fimbriata Kraepelin, 1914 — Namibia
• Blossia fradei (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
• Blossia gaerdesi (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
• Blossia gluvioides (Roewer, 1933) — Mauritania
• Blossia grandicornis Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
• Blossia hessei Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
• Blossia homodonta (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
• Blossia karrooica Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
• Blossia laminicornis Hewitt, 1919 — South Africa
• Blossia lapidicola (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
• Blossia laticosta Hewitt, 1919 — Somalia?, Israel, South Africa
• Blossia litoralis Purcell, 1903 — South Africa
• Blossia longipalpis (Lawrence, 1935) — Angola, Namibia
• Blossia macilenta (Lawrence, 1968) — South Africa
• Blossia maraisi Hewitt, 1915 — South Africa
• Blossia maroccana (Roewer, 1933) — Morocco
• Blossia massaica Roewer, 1933 — Tanzania
• Blossia namaquensis Purcell, 1902 — Namibia, South Africa
• Blossia nigripalpis (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Somalia
• Blossia obscura Kraepelin, 1908 — Botswana
• Blossia obsti (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Blossia occidentalis (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Morocco, Western Sahara
• Blossia omeri (Levy & Shulov, 1964) — Israel
• Blossia orangica (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
• Blossia pallideflava (Lawrence, 1972) — South Africa
• Blossia parva (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia, South Africa
• Blossia planicursor Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
• Blossia pringlei (Lamoral, 1974) — South Africa
• Blossia purpurea Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
• Blossia quadripilosa (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
• Blossia robusta (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
• Blossia rooica Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
• Blossia rosea (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
• Blossia sabulosa (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
• Blossia scapicornis (Lawrence, 1972) — South Africa
• Blossia schulzei (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
• Blossia setifera Pocock, 1900 — Zimbabwe
• Blossia singularis (Lawrence, 1965) — South Africa
• Blossia spinicornis Lawrence, 1928 — Namibia
• Blossia spinosa Simon, 1880 — Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
• Blossia sulcichelis (Roewer, 1941) — Tanzania
• Blossia toschii (Caporiacco, 1949) — Kenya
• Blossia tricolor Hewitt, 1914 — Namibia
• Blossia unguicornis Purcell, 1902 — South Africa

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2907074 entry