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
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