Biton (arachnid)

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

Species

, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty-eight species:

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

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