{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Parabomis megae 111879438.jpg | image_caption = ''P. megae'' | image2 = Parabomis megae 337778499.jpg | image2_caption = ''P. megae'' | taxon = Parabomis | authority = Kulczyński, 1901 | type_species = ''Parabomis levanderi'' | type_species_authority = Kulczyński, 1901 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, see text }} '''''Parabomis''''' is a genus of African spiders in the family Thomisidae. It was first described in 1901 by Władysław Kulczyński.<ref name="kulczynski1901" />
==Description== ''Parabomis'' spiders are characterized by their small size, short legs, globular bodies, and thick granulose integument. The female carapace is very high with a strong posterior declivity. The eye pattern is distinct with both anterior and posterior median and lateral eyes closely grouped. The carapace is fawn with the clypeus and eye region strongly infused with white. The lateral side is dark yellow to fawn with dark brown patches.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
The abdomen is fawn to brown infused with white, globular, and with strong striae. The legs are reddish-brown with darker coxae and femora. Males are smaller than females and darker in color. The male carapace is dark brown with darker patches laterally. The chelicerae, mouthparts, and sternum are dark to yellowish brown.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
The male legs are reddish-brown with coxae and femora darker, and the articulation area of each segment has a white rim. The abdominal dorsum is white with a brown hue, shield-like, and bears two longitudinal series of black spots dorsally in depressions.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Life style== ''Parabomis'' are free-living plant dwellers. Most specimens have been sampled from trees.<ref name="dippenaar2020" />
==Species== {{as of|2025|10}}, this genus includes six species:<ref name="wsc" />
{{Div col}} * ''Parabomis elsae'' <small>Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020</small> – South Africa * ''Parabomis levanderi'' <small>Kulczyński, 1901</small> – Eritrea (type species) * ''Parabomis martini'' <small>Lessert, 1919</small> – Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa * ''Parabomis megae'' <small>Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020</small> – Zimbabwe * ''Parabomis pilosa'' <small>Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020</small> – Botswana, South Africa * ''Parabomis wandae'' <small>Dippenaar-Schoeman & Foord, 2020</small> – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3677 | title=Gen. ''Parabomis'' Kulczyński, 1901 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2025-10-07}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2020">{{cite book |last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman |first1=A.S. |last2=Haddad |first2=C.R. |last3=Foord |first3=S.H. |last4=Lotz |first4=L.N. |year=2020 |title=The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 2 My-R. Version 1 |publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide |page=29 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7513276}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name="kulczynski1901">{{Cite journal |last=Kulczyński |first=Władysław |date=1901 |title=Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta |journal=Rozprawy I Sprawozdania Z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow |volume=41 |pages=1–64}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Thomisidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa