{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Sobasina | authority = Simon, 1898<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''S. amoenula'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1898 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 16, see text }} '''''Sobasina''''' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.<ref name=Simo1898>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=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| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=271–276| volume=66| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref> These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for ''S. paradoxa'', which looks more like a beetle.
==Species== {{as of|2019|08}} it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Sobasina Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2970| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Sobasina alboclypea'' <small>Wanless, 1978</small> – Solomon Is. *''Sobasina amoenula'' <small>Simon, 1898</small> (type) – Solomon Is. *''Sobasina aspinosa'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Fiji *''Sobasina coriacea'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Palau (Caroline Is.) *''Sobasina cutleri'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Fiji *''Sobasina hutuna'' <small>Wanless, 1978</small> – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.) *''Sobasina magna'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Tonga *''Sobasina paradoxa'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Fiji *''Sobasina platnicki'' <small>Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013</small> – Indonesia (Borneo) *''Sobasina platypoda'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Fiji *''Sobasina scutata'' <small>Wanless, 1978</small> – Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.) *''Sobasina solomonensis'' <small>Wanless, 1978</small> – Solomon Is. *''Sobasina sylvatica'' <small>Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001</small> – Malaysia *''Sobasina tanna'' <small>Wanless, 1978</small> – Vanuatu *''Sobasina wanlessi'' <small>Zhang & Maddison, 2012</small> – Papua New Guinea *''Sobasina yapensis'' <small>Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998</small> – Micronesia (Caroline Is.)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last1=Berry| first1=J.W.| last2=Beatty| first2=J.A.| last3=Proszynski| first3=J.| year=1998| title=Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=26| issue=2| pages=149–189| url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf}}
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Category:Salticidae Category:Salticidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Oceania Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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