Biton (arachnid)

Biton is a genus of daesiid camel spiders, first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.

Species
, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty-eight species:


 * Biton adamanteus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton arenicola Lawrence, 1966 — Namibia
 * Biton bellulus (Pocock, 1902) — Egypt
 * Biton bernardi (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
 * Biton betschuanicus (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
 * Biton browni (Lawrence, 1965) — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton brunneus Roewer, 1933 — Morocco
 * Biton brunnipes Pocock, 1896 — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
 * Biton cataractus Lawrence, 1968 — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton crassidens Lawrence, 1935 — South Africa
 * Biton cursorius Roewer, 1933 — Togo
 * Biton divaricatus Roewer, 1933 — Togo
 * Biton ehrenbergi Karsch, 1880 — Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel, Italy (mainland), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
 * Biton fallax (Borelli, 1925) — Libya
 * Biton fessanus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
 * Biton fuscipes Pocock, 1897 — Ethiopia, Somalia
 * Biton fuscus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Algeria
 * Biton gaerdesi Roewer, 1954 — Namibia
 * Biton gariesensis (Lawrence, 1931) — South Africa
 * Biton haackei Lawrence, 1968 — South Africa
 * Biton habereri (Kraepelin, 1929) — Chad
 * Biton hottentottus (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton kolbei (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
 * Biton kraekolbei Wharton, 1981 — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton laminatus (Pocock, 1903) — Yemen
 * Biton leipoldti (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
 * Biton lineatus (Pocock, 1902) — South Africa
 * Biton lividus Simon, 1882 — Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan
 * Biton longisetosus Lawrence, 1972 — South Africa
 * Biton magnifrons (Birula, 1905) — Ethiopia, Israel
 * Biton monodentatus Delle Cave, 1978 — Somalia
 * Biton mossambicus Roewer, 1954 — Mozambique
 * Biton namaqua (Kraepelin, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton ovambicus (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
 * Biton pallidus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
 * Biton pearsoni (Hewitt, 1914) — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton persicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran
 * Biton philbyi Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
 * Biton pimenteli Frade, 1940 — Angola
 * Biton planirostris (Birula, 1941) — Yemen
 * Biton ragazzii (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan
 * Biton rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1914) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
 * Biton roeweri (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
 * Biton rossicus (Birula, 1905) — Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
 * Biton sabulosus (Pocock, 1903) — Saudi Arabia, Yemen
 * Biton schelkovnikovi (Birula, 1936) — Armenia, Azerbaijan
 * Biton schreineri (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
 * Biton schultzei (Kraepelin, 1908) — Botswana, South Africa
 * Biton simoni (Kraepelin, 1899) — Djibouti, Somalia
 * Biton striatus (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton subulatus (Purcell, 1899) — South Africa
 * Biton tarabulus Roewer, 1933 — Libya
 * Biton tauricus Roewer, 1941 — Turkey
 * Biton tenuifalcis Lawrence, 1962 — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton tigrinus Pocock, 1898 — Kenya
 * Biton transvaalensis Lawrence, 1949 — South Africa
 * Biton triseriatus Lawrence, 1955 — Namibia, South Africa
 * Biton truncatidens Lawrence, 1954 — Saudi Arabia
 * Biton tunetanus Simon, 1885 — Algeria, Israel, Libya, Tunisia
 * Biton turkestanus (Roewer, 1933) — China
 * Biton vachoni Lawrence, 1966 — Algeria
 * Biton velox Simon, 1885 — Ethiopia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia
 * Biton villiersi (Vachon, 1950) — Niger
 * Biton villosus Roewer, 1933 — Ethiopia, Somalia
 * Biton werneri Roewer, 1933 — Namibia
 * Biton wicki (Birula, 1915) — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
 * Biton xerxes (Roewer, 1933) — Iran
 * Biton zederbaueri (Werner, 1905) — Israel, Turkey