Borboropactus Simon, 1884

Meng, Ze-Yuan, Luo, Hui-Pu, Xiao, Yong-Hong, Xu, Xiang & Liu, Ke-Ke, 2019, Redescription of Borboropactus jiangyong Yin, Peng, Yan & Kim, 2004 (Araneae, Thomisidae), with the first description of the male, ZooKeys 870, pp. 137-148 : 140

Genus Borboropactus Simon, 1884

Diagnosis.

This genus can be easily distinguished from other genera in thomisid spiders by the body covered with numerous club-shaped hairs; posterior eye row recurved in dorsal view; chelicerae toothed on both margins and with small teeth within its furrow; leg I powerful and distinctly the longest with the femur thickened prolaterally, bearing tubercles/spines, and with a depression; legs I and II with paired ventral tibial and metatarsal spines; legs III and IV without spines; metatarsal trichobothria with expansion, tarsal on sensory field with bumps in a long unexpanded area; presence of the tarsal pit organ (a special large leg sense organ); proclaw with a special patch of teeth; female epigynum teeth well developed; male palpal tibia with a retrodistal apophysis, bulbus simple and prominent, median apophysis present, conductor present or absent. See also Wunderlich (2004b) for a diagnosis of the genus and Wunderlich (2004a), Benjamin et al. (2008), Benjamin (2011), Ramírez (2014) and this paper for species descriptions.