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.

Sobasina
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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

Species

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

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sobasina Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. 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.

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