Sobasina

Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.^[2] These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.

Sobasina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Sobasina Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
S. amoenula Simon, 1898
Species
16, see text

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia:^[1]

• Sobasina alboclypea Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
• Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898 (type) – Solomon Is.
• Sobasina aspinosa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
• Sobasina coriacea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Palau (Caroline Is.)
• Sobasina cutleri Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
• Sobasina hutuna Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.)
• Sobasina magna Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Tonga
• Sobasina paradoxa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
• Sobasina platnicki Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia (Borneo)
• Sobasina platypoda Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
• Sobasina scutata Wanless, 1978 – Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
• Sobasina solomonensis Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
• Sobasina sylvatica Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Malaysia
• Sobasina tanna Wanless, 1978 – Vanuatu
• Sobasina wanlessi Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Papua New Guinea
• Sobasina yapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Micronesia (Caroline Is.)