Camaricus

Camaricus
C. maugei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Camaricus Thorell, 1887[1]
Type species
C. maugei (Walckenaer, 1837)
Species
15, see text

Camaricus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887.^[2]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Asia, and on New Caledonia:^[1]

• Camaricus bipunctatus Bastawade, 2002 – India
• Camaricus castaneiceps Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Camaricus chayani Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2017 – Bangladesh
• Camaricus cimex (Karsch, 1878) – East Africa
• Camaricus florae Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Camaricus formosus Thorell, 1887 – India to Indonesia (Sumatra), China, Philippines
• Camaricus hastifer (Percheron, 1833) – Unknown
• Camaricus khandalaensis Tikader, 1980 – India
• Camaricus maugei (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – India to Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Krakatau)
• Camaricus mimus (Pavesi, 1895) – Ethiopia, East Africa
• Camaricus nigrotesselatus Simon, 1895 – Central, East, South Africa
• Camaricus parisukatus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Camaricus pulchellus Simon, 1903 – Vietnam
• Camaricus rinkae Biswas & Roy, 2005 – India
• Camaricus siltorsus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007 – India

Nomen dubium

• C. nigrotesselatus Strand, 1907

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. "Gen. Camaricus Thorell, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
2. Thorell, T. (1887). "Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian). 25: 5–417.

Further reading

• Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Barrion, A. T.; Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + pp. p. 700.
• Biswas, V.; Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). "New species of the genus Camaricus Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Bangladesh". Bangladesh Journal of Zoology. 44 (2): 255–265. doi:10.3329/bjz.v44i2.32765.
• Sen, S.; et al. (2015). "Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary". World Scientific News. 20: 1–339.
• Tikader, B. K. (1980). "Thomisidae (Crab-spiders)". Fauna India. 1: 1–247.