''Bassaniodes'' is a genus of

crab spiders The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of th ...

that was first described by

Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward ...

in 1903.

Species

it contains thirty-nine species and one subspecies, found in Africa, Europe, and Asia: *''Bassaniodes adzharicus'' (Mcheidze, 1971) – Georgia (country), Georgia *''Bassaniodes anatolicus'' (Demir, Aktaş & Topçu, 2008) – Turkey *''Bassaniodes blagoevi'' Naumova, 2020 – Albania *''Bassaniodes bliteus'' (Eugène Simon, Simon, 1875) – Mediterranean *''Bassaniodes bufo'' (Dufour, 1820) – Mediterranean *''Bassaniodes canariensis'' (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes caperatoides'' (Levy, 1976) – Israel *''Bassaniodes caperatus'' (Simon, 1875) – Mediterranean, Turkey, Ukrain, Russia (Caucasus) *''Bassaniodes clavulus'' (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes cribratus'' (Simon, 1885) – Mediterranean, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, China, Korea *''Bassaniodes dolpoensis'' (Ono, 1978) – Nepal, China *''Bassaniodes egenus'' (Simon, 1886) – West Africa *''Bassaniodes falx'' (Wunderlich, 2022) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes ferus'' (Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Cyprus, Egypt, Israel *''Bassaniodes fienae'' (Jocqué, 1993) – Spain *''Bassaniodes fuerteventurensis'' (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes graecus'' (Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, C. L. Koch, 1837) – Balkans, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Israel, Iraq *''Bassaniodes grohi'' (Wunderlich, 1992) – Madeira *''Bassaniodes hariaensis'' (Wunderlich, 2022) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes lalandei'' (Jean Victoire Audouin, Audouin, 1826) – Mediterranean, Azerbaijan *''Bassaniodes lanzarotensis'' (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is., Savage Is. *''Bassaniodes loeffleri'' (Carl Friedrich Roewer, Roewer, 1955) – Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia *''Bassaniodes madeirensis'' (Wunderlich, 1992) – Madeira *''Bassaniodes obesus'' (Tamerlan Thorell, Thorell, 1875) – Ukraine, Russia (Europe) *''Bassaniodes ovadan'' (Marusik & Logunov, 1995) – Turkmenistan *''Bassaniodes ovcharenkoi'' (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Central Asia *''Bassaniodes pinocorticalis'' (Wunderlich, 1992) – Canary Is. *''Bassaniodes pseudorectilineus'' (Wunderlich, 1995) – Greece, Turkey *''Bassaniodes rectilineus'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iran *''Bassaniodes robustus'' (Carl Wilhelm Hahn, Hahn, 1832) – Europe to Central Asia *''Bassaniodes sardiniensis'' (Wunderlich, 1995) – Italy (Sardinia) *''Bassaniodes sinaiticus'' (Levy, 1999) – Egypt *''Bassaniodes socotrensis'' Pocock, 1903 (Type_species, type) – Yemen (Socotra) *''Bassaniodes squalidus'' (Simon, 1883) – Canary Is., Madeira *''Bassaniodes tenebrosus'' (Šilhavý, 1944) – East Mediterranean **''Bassaniodes tenebrosus, Bassaniodes t. ohridensis'' (Šilhavý, 1944) – North Macedonia *''Bassaniodes tristrami'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Middle East *''Bassaniodes turlan'' (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Central Asia *''Bassaniodes ulkan'' (Marusik & Logunov, 1990) – Russia (Europe), Kyrgyzstan *''Bassaniodes xizangensis'' (Tang & Song, 1988) – China

Species

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