Boliscus
Genus of spiders
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Boliscus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[3][1] As of February 2019[update] it contains only three species.
| Boliscus | |
|---|---|
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| B. tuberculatus, male | |
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| B. tuberculatus, female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Boliscus Thorell, 1891[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. tuberculatus (Simon, 1886) | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
B. tuberculatus is the most studied and well known of the three. The other two, B. duricorius and B. decipiens, are only known from females found by Eugène Simon in 1880[4] and Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899,[5] respectively. In his 2016 publication in the Indian Journal of Arachnology, Pekka T. Lehtinen commented that this genus and its close relatives, including Corynethrix and possibly Boliscodes, need a taxonomic revision with the help of molecular analysis and that the absence of male specimens in two of the three species may make this difficult.[6]
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