Biton (arachnid)

Biton
Biton rossicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Solifugae
Family:	Daesiidae
Genus:	Biton Karsch, 1880
Type species
Biton ehrenbergi Karsch, 1880
Species
68, see text

Biton is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880. ^[1]

Species

As of October 2022 ^[update] , the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty-eight species: ^[2]

• Biton adamanteus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton arenicola Lawrence, 1966 — Namibia
• Biton bellulus (Pocock, 1902) — Egypt
• Biton bernardi (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
• Biton betschuanicus (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
• Biton browni (Lawrence, 1965) — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton brunneus Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
• Biton brunnipes Pocock, 1896 — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
• Biton cataractus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton crassidens Lawrence, 1935 — South Africa
• Biton cursorius Roewer, 1933 — Togo
• Biton divaricatus Roewer, 1933 — Togo
• Biton ehrenbergi Karsch, 1880 — Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel, Italy (mainland), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
• Biton fallax (Borelli, 1925) — Libya
• Biton fessanus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
• Biton fuscipes Pocock, 1897 — Ethiopia, Somalia
• Biton fuscus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Algeria
• Biton gaerdesi Roewer, 1954 — Namibia
• Biton gariesensis (Lawrence, 1931) — South Africa
• Biton haackei Lawrence, 1968 — South Africa
• Biton habereri (Kraepelin, 1929) — Chad
• Biton hottentottus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton kolbei (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Biton kraekolbei Wharton, 1981 — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton laminatus (Pocock, 1903) — Yemen
• Biton leipoldti (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
• Biton lineatus (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa
• Biton lividus Simon, 1882 — Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan
• Biton longisetosus Lawrence, 1972 — South Africa
• Biton magnifrons (Birula, 1905) — Ethiopia, Israel
• Biton monodentatus Delle Cave, 1978 — Somalia
• Biton mossambicus Roewer, 1954 — Mozambique
• Biton namaqua (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton ovambicus (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
• Biton pallidus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
• Biton pearsoni (Hewitt, 1914) — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton persicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran
• Biton philbyi Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
• Biton pimenteli Frade, 1940 — Angola
• Biton planirostris (Birula, 1941) — Yemen
• Biton ragazzii (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan
• Biton rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1914) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Biton roeweri (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
• Biton rossicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• Biton sabulosus (Pocock, 1903) — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• Biton schelkovnikovi (Birula, 1936) — Armenia, Azerbaijan
• Biton schreineri (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
• Biton schultzei (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
• Biton simoni (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Somalia
• Biton striatus (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton subulatus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
• Biton tarabulus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
• Biton tauricus Roewer, 1941 — Turkey
• Biton tenuifalcis Lawrence, 1962 — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton tigrinus Pocock, 1898 — Kenya
• Biton transvaalensis Lawrence, 1949 — South Africa
• Biton triseriatus Lawrence, 1955 — Namibia, South Africa
• Biton truncatidens Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
• Biton tunetanus Simon, 1885 — Algeria, Israel, Libya, Tunisia
• Biton turkestanus (Roewer, 1933) — China
• Biton vachoni Lawrence, 1966 — Algeria
• Biton velox Simon, 1885 — Ethiopia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia
• Biton villiersi (Vachon, 1950) — Niger
• Biton villosus Roewer, 1933 — Ethiopia, Somalia
• Biton werneri Roewer, 1933 — Namibia
• Biton wicki (Birula, 1915) — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
• Biton xerxes (Roewer, 1933) — Iran
• Biton zederbaueri (Werner, 1905) — Israel, Turkey

References

1. Karsch, Ferdinand (1880). "Zur Kenntniss der Galeodiden". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 46: 228–243. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.14406.
2. "Biton Karsch, 1880". World Solifugae Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.