Sobasina

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Sobasina

| authority = Simon, 1898

| type_species = S. amoenula

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1898

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 16, see text

}}

Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIII. Arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr Ph. François en Nouvelle Calédonie, aux Nouvelles-Hebrides (Mallicolo) et à l'île de Vanikoro| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=271–276| volume=66| author-link=Eugène Simon}} These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.

Species

{{as of|2019|08}} it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sobasina Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2970| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal| last1=Berry| first1=J.W.| last2=Beatty| first2=J.A.| last3=Proszynski| first3=J.| year=1998| title=Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=26| issue=2| pages=149–189| url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf}}

{{Taxonbar| from=Q942516}}

Category:Salticidae

Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Asia

Category:Spiders of Oceania

Category:Spiders of South America

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