Woolly Flat-faced Crab Spider
This species differs from other Angaeus in Singapore by its paler colouration, due to the dense layer of long and curled wool-like hairs blanketing the body.
Length | ♀ 9–10 mm; ♂ unknown |
Type Locality | "PhucSon", Vietnam |
Distribution | Singapore, Vietnam, China. |
Habitat | Vegetation in parkland. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Holotype
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China; ♀ of Paraborboropactus oblatus (Benjamin, 2013)
Syntype
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1♀ (22125/1573) (Benjamin, 2013)
Angaeus lenticulosus (Original description ♀)
Paraborboropactus oblatus (Original description ♀)
Tang & Li, 2010a Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae): 53, f. 40A-C, 41A-B doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2369.1.1
Angaeus lenticulosus (♀, Synonym of Paraborboropactus oblatus)
Benjamin, 2013 On the crab spider genus Angaeus Thorell, 1881 and its junior synonym Paraborboropactus Tang and Li, 2009 (Araneae: Thomisidae): 72, f. 1B-E doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.7
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Vietnam, China.