Biology:Sobasina

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Sobasina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Sobasina
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
S. amoenula
Simon, 1898
Species

16, see text

Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[2] These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.

Species

(As of August 2019) it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia:[1]

  • Sobasina alboclypea Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
  • Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898 (type) – Solomon Is.
  • Sobasina aspinosa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
  • Sobasina coriacea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Palau (Caroline Is.)
  • Sobasina cutleri Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
  • Sobasina hutuna Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.)
  • Sobasina magna Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Tonga
  • Sobasina paradoxa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
  • Sobasina platnicki Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia (Borneo)
  • Sobasina platypoda Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
  • Sobasina scutata Wanless, 1978 – Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
  • Sobasina solomonensis Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
  • Sobasina sylvatica Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Malaysia
  • Sobasina tanna Wanless, 1978 – Vanuatu
  • Sobasina wanlessi Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Papua New Guinea
  • Sobasina yapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998Micronesia (Caroline Is.)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Sobasina Simon, 1898. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2970. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  2. Simon, E. (1898). "Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIII. Arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr Ph. François en Nouvelle Calédonie, aux Nouvelles-Hebrides (Mallicolo) et à l'île de Vanikoro". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66: 271–276. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q942516 entry