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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Angaeus
| image = Angaeus sp.jpg
| authority = [[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]], 1881<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''Angaeus pudicus''
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 11, see text
| synonyms = 
*''Paraborboropactus''<ref name=benj13 />
}}
'''''Angaeus''''' is a genus of Asian [[Thomisidae|crab spiders]] first described by [[Tamerlan Thorell]] in 1881.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1881| title=Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| volume=17| pages=1-727}}</ref> It is considered a [[Synonym_(taxonomy)#Zoology|senior synonym]] of ''Paraborboropactus''.<ref name=benj13>{{cite journal| last=Benjamin| first=S. P.| year=2013| title=On the crab spider genus Angaeus Thorell, 1881 and its junior synonym Paraborboropactus Tang and Li, 2009 (Araneae: Thomisidae)| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3635| pages=71-80}}</ref>

==Species==
{{as of|2020|06}} it contains eleven species, found in Asia:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Angaeus Thorell, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-26| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3585| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Angaeus canalis]]'' <small>(Tang & Li, 2010)</small> – [[China]]
*''[[Angaeus christae]]'' <small>Benjamin, 2013</small> – [[Borneo]]
*''[[Angaeus comatulus]]'' <small>[[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1909</small> – [[Vietnam]]
*''[[Angaeus lenticulosus]]'' <small>Simon, 1903</small> – China, Vietnam
*''[[Angaeus liangweii]]'' <small>(Tang & Li, 2010)</small> – China
*''[[Angaeus pentagonalis]]'' <small>[[Reginald Innes Pocock|Pocock]], 1901</small> – [[India]] (mainland, Andaman Is.)
*''[[Angaeus pudicus]]'' <small>Thorell, 1881</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – [[Indonesia]] ([[Moluccas]], [[Seram Island]])
*''[[Angaeus rhombifer]]'' <small>Thorell, 1890</small> – China, [[Myanmar]], Vietnam, [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]], Indonesia ([[Sumatra]]), Borneo
*''[[Angaeus rhombus]]'' <small>(Tang & Li, 2009)</small> – China
*''[[Angaeus verrucosus]]'' <small>Benjamin, 2017</small> – Malaysia (Borneo)
*''[[Angaeus zhengi]]'' <small>(Tang & Li, 2009)</small> – China

==See also==
* [[List of Thomisidae species]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite journal| last=Tang| first=G.| last2=Li| first2=S. Q.| year=2009| title=Paraborboropactus'' gen. nov., with description of three new species of crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)| journal=Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica| pages=712–721| volume=34}}
*{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=2016| title=Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)| journal=Indian Journal of Arachnology| pages=143–171| volume=5}}
*{{cite journal| last=Tang| first=G.| last2=Li| first2=S. Q.| year=2010| title=Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)| journal=Zootaxa| pages=1–68| volume=2369}}
*{{cite journal| last=Tang| first=G.| last2=Li| first2=S. Q.| year=2010| title=Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)| journal=Zootaxa| pages=1–105| volume=2703}}

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[[Category:Thomisidae]]
[[Category:Thomisidae genera]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell]]


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