Boliscus

Boliscus is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.^[3][1] As of February 2019^[update] it contains only three species.

Boliscus
B. tuberculatus, male
B. tuberculatus, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Boliscus Thorell, 1891[1]
Type species
B. tuberculatus (Simon, 1886)
Species
B. decipiens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Sri Lanka B. duricorius (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia B. tuberculatus (Simon, 1886) – Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Japan
Synonyms[1]
Boliscodes Simon, 1909[2]

B. tuberculatus is the most studied and well known of the three. The other two, B. duricorius and B. decipiens, are only known from females found by Eugène Simon in 1880^[4] and Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899,^[5] respectively. In his 2016 publication in the Indian Journal of Arachnology, Pekka T. Lehtinen commented that this genus and its close relatives, including Corynethrix and possibly Boliscodes, need a taxonomic revision with the help of molecular analysis and that the absence of male specimens in two of the three species may make this difficult.^[6]

See also

• List of Thomisidae species