Sobasina

Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.^[2] These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia:^[1]

Sobasina alboclypea Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898 (type) – Solomon Is.
Sobasina aspinosa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
Sobasina coriacea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Palau (Caroline Is.)
Sobasina cutleri Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
Sobasina hutuna Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.)
Sobasina magna Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Tonga
Sobasina paradoxa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
Sobasina platnicki Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia (Borneo)
Sobasina platypoda Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji
Sobasina scutata Wanless, 1978 – Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.)
Sobasina solomonensis Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is.
Sobasina sylvatica Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Malaysia
Sobasina tanna Wanless, 1978 – Vanuatu
Sobasina wanlessi Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Papua New Guinea
Sobasina yapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Micronesia (Caroline Is.)

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sobasina Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ Simon, E. (1898). "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". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 66: 271–276.