Bassaniana

Bassaniana
B. versicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Bassaniana Strand, 1928 [1]
Type species
B. versicolor (Keyserling, 1880)
Species
7, see text

Bassaniana, commonly called bark crab spiders, is a widespread genus of crab spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1928. ^[2]

Species

As of November 2021 ^[update] it contains seven species, found in Europe, Asia, and North America: ^[1]

• Bassaniana baudueri (Simon, 1877) – Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
• Bassaniana birudis Im, Kim & Lee, 2021 – Korea ^[3]
• Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Bassaniana floridana (Banks, 1896) – USA
• Bassaniana ora Seo, 1992 – Korea
• Bassaniana utahensis (Gertsch, 1932) – USA, Canada
• Bassaniana versicolor (Keyserling, 1880) (type) – North America

In synonymy:

• B. aemula) = Bassaniana versicolor(Keyserling, 1880)
• B. albomaculatus(Kulczyński, 1891) = Bassaniana baudueri(Simon, 1877)
• B. japonicus(Simon, 1886) = Bassaniana decorata(Karsch, 1879)
• B. pichoni(Schenkel, 1963) = Bassaniana decorata(Karsch, 1879)
• B. typica(Kishida, 1913) = Bassaniana decorata(Karsch, 1879)

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. "Gen. Bassaniana Strand, 1928". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
2. Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, I-II". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 92 (A8): 30–75.
3. Im, Jae Seong; Kim, Seung Tae; Lee, Sue Yeon (17 November 2021). "Bassaniana birudis sp. nov., a new crab spider (Araneae, Thomisidae) from South Korea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e73109. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e73109 . PMC   8613144 . PMID   34840507.

Further reading

• Bowling, T. A.; Sauer, R. J. (1975). "A taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Coriarachne (Araneida, Thomisidae) for North America north of Mexico". Journal of Arachnology. 2: 183–193.
• Gertsch, W. J. (1953). "The spider genera Xysticus, Coriarachne and Oxyptila (Thomisidae, Misumeninae) in North America". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 102: 415–482.
• Ono, H. (1988). A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Japan. National Science Museum, Tokyo. p. 252.
• Gertsch, W. J. (1939). "A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 76: 277–442.
• Gertsch, W. J. (1932). "A new generic name for Coriarachne versicolor Keyserling, with new species". American Museum Novitates (563): 1–7.

External links

• Bassaniana at BugGuide