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Thomisidae Angaeus

Angaeus lenticulosus Simon, 1903

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
DistributionSingapore, Vietnam, China.
HabitatVegetation in parkland.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China; ♀ of Paraborboropactus oblatus (Benjamin, 2013)

  2. Syntype

    Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1♀ (22125/1573) (Benjamin, 2013)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Angaeus lenticulosus (Original description ♀)

    Simon, 1903g Etudes arachnologiques: 729

  2. 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

  3. 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.

Distribution Map for Angaeus lenticulosus Simon, 1903

Singapore, Vietnam, China.

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