Boomerangiana
Genus of crab spiders
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Boomerangiana is a monotypic genus of Australian crab spiders in the tribe Misumenini[2] containing the single species, Boomerangiana dimidiata. They are small white spiders, only 2 to 3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.118 in) long, with silvery round abdomen.[2] The species was originally described in 1867 by Ludwig Koch from an immature female found in Brisbane.[3] Though he originally placed it with Xysticus,[3] after several more were found in Rockhampton and Gayndah and more information became available, he moved the species to Diaea.[4] It was moved to its own genus in 2014 named Boomerangia, but was renamed Boomerangiana when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a family of nematodes.[5]
| Boomerangiana | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Boomerangiana Szymkowiak & Sherwood, 2021[1] |
| Species: | B. dimidiata |
| Binomial name | |
| Boomerangiana dimidiata | |
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