Smodicinus
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Smodicinus coroniger is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae. It is the only species in the genus Smodicinus and is endemic to Africa. It is commonly known as the crowned Smodicinus crab spider.
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Vinony's link graph records 1 inbound reference to Smodicinus, and connects out to Thomisidae, South Africa and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Vinony files it under Monotypic Araneomorphae genera, Spiders described in 1895 and Spiders of Africa.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Collections
- ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Thomisidae
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- Smodicinus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Behaviour and life cycle
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Smodicinus coroniger is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae. It is the only species in the genus Smodicinus and is endemic to Africa. It is commonly known as the crowned Smodicinus crab spider.
==Etymology== The specific name coroniger derives from the Latin corona (crown) and the suffix -iger (bearing), referring to the distinctive crown-like crest on the carapace.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Smodicinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.