Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.
Sobasina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle.
==Species== it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia: Sobasina alboclypea Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898 (type) – Solomon Is. Sobasina aspinosa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji Sobasina coriacea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Palau (Caroline Is.) Sobasina cutleri Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji Sobasina hutuna Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.) Sobasina magna Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Tonga Sobasina paradoxa Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji Sobasina platnicki Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia (Borneo) Sobasina platypoda Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji Sobasina scutata Wanless, 1978 – Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch.) Sobasina solomonensis Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. Sobasina sylvatica Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Malaysia Sobasina tanna Wanless, 1978 – Vanuatu Sobasina wanlessi Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Papua New Guinea Sobasina yapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Micronesia (Caroline Is.)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).