Blossia

Blossia is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Eugène Simon in 1880.[1]

Blossia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Solifugae
Family: Daesiidae
Genus: Blossia
Simon, 1880
Type species
Blossia spinosa
Simon, 1880
Species

59, see text

Species

As of October 2022, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following fifty-nine species:[2]

  • Blossia aegyptica (Roewer, 1933) — Egypt, Israel
  • Blossia albocaudata Levy & Shulov, 1964 — Israel
  • Blossia alticursor Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
  • Blossia anatolica (Roewer, 1941) — Turkey
  • Blossia angolensis (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
  • Blossia arabica (Roewer, 1933) — Yemen
  • Blossia brincki (Lawrence, 1955) — South Africa
  • Blossia clunigera Kraepelin, 1908 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Blossia costata (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
  • Blossia crepidulifera Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
  • Blossia ebneri (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Morocco
  • Blossia echinata Purcell, 1903 — South Africa
  • Blossia electa Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
  • Blossia falcifera Kraepelin, 1908 — Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Blossia filicornis Hewitt, 1914 — Namibia
  • Blossia fimbriata Kraepelin, 1914 — Namibia
  • Blossia fradei (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
  • Blossia gaerdesi (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
  • Blossia gluvioides (Roewer, 1933) — Mauritania
  • Blossia grandicornis Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
  • Blossia hessei Lawrence, 1929 — South Africa
  • Blossia homodonta (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
  • Blossia karrooica Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
  • Blossia laminicornis Hewitt, 1919 — South Africa
  • Blossia lapidicola (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
  • Blossia laticosta Hewitt, 1919 — Somalia?, Israel, South Africa
  • Blossia litoralis Purcell, 1903 — South Africa
  • Blossia longipalpis (Lawrence, 1935) — Angola, Namibia
  • Blossia macilenta (Lawrence, 1968) — South Africa
  • Blossia maraisi Hewitt, 1915 — South Africa
  • Blossia maroccana (Roewer, 1933) — Morocco
  • Blossia massaica Roewer, 1933 — Tanzania
  • Blossia namaquensis Purcell, 1902 — Namibia, South Africa
  • Blossia nigripalpis (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Somalia
  • Blossia obscura Kraepelin, 1908 — Botswana
  • Blossia obsti (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Blossia occidentalis (Roewer, 1933) — Israel, Morocco, Western Sahara
  • Blossia omeri (Levy & Shulov, 1964) — Israel
  • Blossia orangica (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
  • Blossia pallideflava (Lawrence, 1972) — South Africa
  • Blossia parva (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Blossia planicursor Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
  • Blossia pringlei (Lamoral, 1974) — South Africa
  • Blossia purpurea Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
  • Blossia quadripilosa (Lawrence, 1960) — Angola
  • Blossia robusta (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
  • Blossia rooica Wharton, 1981 — Namibia
  • Blossia rosea (Lawrence, 1935) — South Africa
  • Blossia sabulosa (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
  • Blossia scapicornis (Lawrence, 1972) — South Africa
  • Blossia schulzei (Lawrence, 1972) — Namibia
  • Blossia setifera Pocock, 1900 — Zimbabwe
  • Blossia singularis (Lawrence, 1965) — South Africa
  • Blossia spinicornis Lawrence, 1928 — Namibia
  • Blossia spinosa Simon, 1880 — Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
  • Blossia sulcichelis (Roewer, 1941) — Tanzania
  • Blossia toschii (Caporiacco, 1949) — Kenya
  • Blossia tricolor Hewitt, 1914 — Namibia
  • Blossia unguicornis Purcell, 1902 — South Africa

References
  1. Simon, Eugène (1880). "Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres de l'ordre des Solifugae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10: 399–402.
  2. "Blossia Simon, 1880". World Solifugae Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.


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