Biton (arachnid)

Biton is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.[1]

Biton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Solifugae
Family: Daesiidae
Genus: Biton
Karsch, 1880
Type species
Biton ehrenbergi
Karsch, 1880
Species

68, see text

Species

As of October 2022, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty-eight species:[2]

  • Biton adamanteus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton arenicola Lawrence, 1966 — Namibia
  • Biton bellulus (Pocock, 1902) — Egypt
  • Biton bernardi (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
  • Biton betschuanicus (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
  • Biton browni (Lawrence, 1965) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton brunneus Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
  • Biton brunnipes Pocock, 1896 — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
  • Biton cataractus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton crassidens Lawrence, 1935 — South Africa
  • Biton cursorius Roewer, 1933 — Togo
  • Biton divaricatus Roewer, 1933 — Togo
  • Biton ehrenbergi Karsch, 1880 — Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel, Italy (mainland), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
  • Biton fallax (Borelli, 1925) — Libya
  • Biton fessanus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
  • Biton fuscipes Pocock, 1897 — Ethiopia, Somalia
  • Biton fuscus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Algeria
  • Biton gaerdesi Roewer, 1954 — Namibia
  • Biton gariesensis (Lawrence, 1931) — South Africa
  • Biton haackei Lawrence, 1968 — South Africa
  • Biton habereri (Kraepelin, 1929) — Chad
  • Biton hottentottus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton kolbei (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Biton kraekolbei Wharton, 1981 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton laminatus (Pocock, 1903) — Yemen
  • Biton leipoldti (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
  • Biton lineatus (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa
  • Biton lividus Simon, 1882 — Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan
  • Biton longisetosus Lawrence, 1972 — South Africa
  • Biton magnifrons (Birula, 1905) — Ethiopia, Israel
  • Biton monodentatus Delle Cave, 1978 — Somalia
  • Biton mossambicus Roewer, 1954 — Mozambique
  • Biton namaqua (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton ovambicus (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
  • Biton pallidus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
  • Biton pearsoni (Hewitt, 1914) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton persicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran
  • Biton philbyi Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
  • Biton pimenteli Frade, 1940 — Angola
  • Biton planirostris (Birula, 1941) — Yemen
  • Biton ragazzii (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan
  • Biton rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1914) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Biton roeweri (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
  • Biton rossicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • Biton sabulosus (Pocock, 1903) — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • Biton schelkovnikovi (Birula, 1936) — Armenia, Azerbaijan
  • Biton schreineri (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
  • Biton schultzei (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
  • Biton simoni (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Somalia
  • Biton striatus (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton subulatus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
  • Biton tarabulus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
  • Biton tauricus Roewer, 1941 — Turkey
  • Biton tenuifalcis Lawrence, 1962 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton tigrinus Pocock, 1898 — Kenya
  • Biton transvaalensis Lawrence, 1949 — South Africa
  • Biton triseriatus Lawrence, 1955 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Biton truncatidens Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
  • Biton tunetanus Simon, 1885 — Algeria, Israel, Libya, Tunisia
  • Biton turkestanus (Roewer, 1933) — China
  • Biton vachoni Lawrence, 1966 — Algeria
  • Biton velox Simon, 1885 — Ethiopia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia
  • Biton villiersi (Vachon, 1950) — Niger
  • Biton villosus Roewer, 1933 — Ethiopia, Somalia
  • Biton werneri Roewer, 1933 — Namibia
  • Biton wicki (Birula, 1915) — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
  • Biton xerxes (Roewer, 1933) — Iran
  • Biton zederbaueri (Werner, 1905) — Israel, Turkey

References
  1. Karsch, Ferdinand (1880). "Zur Kenntniss der Galeodiden". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 46: 228–243. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.14406.
  2. "Biton Karsch, 1880". World Solifugae Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.


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