Angaeus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Paraborboropactus.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Angaeus Thorell, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| Angaeus pudicus | |
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Species edit
As of December 2022[update] it contained twelve species, found in Asia:[1]
- Angaeus canalis (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
- Angaeus christae Benjamin, 2013 – Borneo
- Angaeus comatulus Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
- Angaeus lenticulosus Simon, 1903 – China, Vietnam
- Angaeus liangweii (Tang & Li, 2010) – China
- Angaeus pentagonalis Pocock, 1901 – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
- Angaeus pudicus Thorell, 1881 (type) – Indonesia (Moluccas, Seram Island)
- Angaeus rhombifer Thorell, 1890 – China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra), Borneo
- Angaeus rhombus (Tang & Li, 2009) – China
- Angaeus verrucosus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
- Angaeus xieluae (Liu, 2022) – China
- Angaeus zhengi (Tang & Li, 2009) – China
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Angaeus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ a b Benjamin, S. P. (2013). "On the crab spider genus Angaeus Thorell, 1881 and its junior synonym Paraborboropactus Tang and Li, 2009 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3635: 71–80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.7. PMID 26097932.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.
Further reading edit
- Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2009). "Paraborboropactus gen. nov., with description of three new species of crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 34: 712–721.
- Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 143–171.
- Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2369: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1.
- Tang, G.; Li, S. Q. (2010). "Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 2703: 1–105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2703.1.1. S2CID 16523262.