Boomerangiana is a monotypic genus of Australian crab spiders in the tribe Misumenini[2] containing the single species, Boomerangiana dimidiata. They are small white spiders, only 2 to 3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.118 in) long, with silvery round abdomen.[2] The species was originally described in 1867 by Ludwig Koch from an immature female found in Brisbane.[3] Though he originally placed it with Xysticus,[3] after several more were found in Rockhampton and Gayndah and more information became available, he moved the species to Diaea.[4] It was moved to its own genus in 2014 named Boomerangia, but was renamed Boomerangiana when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a family of nematodes.[5]
| Boomerangiana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Boomerangiana Szymkowiak & Sherwood, 2021[1] |
| Species: | B. dimidiata
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| Binomial name | |
| Boomerangiana dimidiata | |
See also
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edit- ^ a b "Gen. Boomerangiana Szymkowiak & Sherwood, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
- ^ a b Szymkowiak, P. (2014). "Revision of Australian species of the genus Diaea (Araneae: Thomisidae) with redefinition of their taxonomic status". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 64 (3): 333–477. doi:10.3161/000345414X684795.
- ^ a b Koch, L. (1867). "Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 17: 173–250.
- ^ Koch, L. (1876). Die Arachniden Australiens nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [The arachnids of Australia described and illustrated from nature] (in German). Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660.
- ^ Szymkowiak, P.; Sherwood, D. (2021). "A replacement name for Boomerangia Szymkowiak, 2014 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 5039 (1): 149–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5039.1.10.