Runcinia
Appearance
Runcinia | |
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Runcinia acuminata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Thomisidae |
Genus: | Runcinia Simon, 1875[1] |
Type species | |
R. grammica (C. L. Koch, 1837)
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Species | |
27, see text |
Runcinia is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1875.[2] The former R. elongata is a synonym of Thomisus elongatus.[3]
Species
As of July 2022[update] it contains 27 species, found mostly in Africa and east Asia, with a few exceptions:[1]
- Runcinia acuminata (Thorell, 1881) – Bangladesh to Japan, New Guinea, Australia
- Runcinia aethiops (Simon, 1901) – Africa
- Runcinia albida (Marx, 1893) – Congo
- Runcinia bifrons (Simon, 1895) – India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
- Runcinia carae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983 – Botswana, Kenya
- Runcinia caudata Schenkel, 1963 – China
- Runcinia depressa Simon, 1906 – Africa
- Runcinia disticta Thorell, 1891 – Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)
- Runcinia dubia Caporiacco, 1940 – Somalia
- Runcinia erythrina Jézéquel, 1964 – West, Southern Africa
- Runcinia escheri Reimoser, 1934 – India
- Runcinia flavida (Simon, 1881) – Spain, Africa
- Runcinia ghorpadei Tikader, 1980 – India
- Runcinia grammica (C. L. Koch, 1837) (type) – Europa, Middle East to Iran, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia, China, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena, South Africa
- Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875) – Africa, Asia. Introduced to Australia
- Runcinia johnstoni Lessert, 1919 – Africa
- Runcinia khandari Gajbe, 2004 – India
- Runcinia kinbergi Thorell, 1891 – Myanmar, India (Nicobar Is.), Indonesia (Java)
- Runcinia manicata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
- Runcinia multilineata Roewer, 1961 – Senegal
- Runcinia roonwali Tikader, 1965 – India
- Runcinia sitadongri Gajbe, 2004 – India
- Runcinia soeensis Schenkel, 1944 – Indonesia (West Timor)
- Runcinia spinulosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan, India
- Runcinia tarabayevi Marusik & Logunov, 1990 – Central Asia
- Runcinia tropica Simon, 1907 – Africa
- Runcinia yogeshi Gajbe & Gajbe, 2001 – India
In synonymy:
- R. advecticia (Simon, 1909, T from Plancinus) = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. affinis Simon, 1897 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. albostriata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. annamita Simon, 1903 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. cataracta Lawrence, 1927 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. cerina (C. L. Koch, 1845) = Runcinia grammica (C. L. Koch, 1837)
- R. chauhani Sen & Basu, 1972 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. cherapunjea (Tikader, 1966, T from Thomisus) = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. littorina Lawrence, 1942 = Runcinia flavida (Simon, 1881)
- R. proxima Lessert, 1919 = Runcinia flavida (Simon, 1881)
- R. proxima Millot, 1941 = Runcinia flavida (Simon, 1881)
- R. sangasanga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Runcinia insecta (L. Koch, 1875)
- R. sjostedti Lessert, 1919 = Runcinia johnstoni Lessert, 1919
See also
References
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Runcinia Simon, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
- ^ Simon, E. (1875). Les arachnides de France. Paris 2. pp. 1–350.
- ^ Tikader, B. K. (1971). "Revision of Indian crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India. 15 (8): 25.