Sobasina is a spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Appearance

Sobasina species look somewhat like ant

Ant

Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...

s, except S. paradoxa, which looks more like a beetle

Beetle

Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

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Species

• Sobasina alboclypea Wanless, 1978 — Solomon Islands
  Solomon Islands
  Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
  
  
• Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898 — Solomon Islands
• Sobasina aspinosa
  Sobasina aspinosa
  Sobasina aspinosa is a species of jumping spider.-Distribution:S. aspinosa is known from the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu in Fiji....
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Fiji
  Fiji
  Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
  
  
• Sobasina coriacea
  Sobasina coriacea
  Sobasina coriacea is a species of jumping spider.-References: : Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. Journal of Arachnology 26: 149-189....
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Caroline Islands
  Caroline Islands
  The Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end...
  
  
• Sobasina cutleri
  Sobasina cutleri
  Sobasina cutleri is a species of jumping spider.-Name:The species is named for salticid specialist Bruce Cutler of the University of Kansas in Lawrence....
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Fiji
• Sobasina hutuna Wanless, 1978 — Rennell Islands
• Sobasina magna
  Sobasina magna
  Sobasina magna is a species of jumping spider.-Name:The epitheton magna "large" refers to the fact that S. magna is the largest Sobasina species yet known....
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Tonga
  Tonga
  Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...
  
  
• Sobasina paradoxa
  Sobasina paradoxa
  Sobasina paradoxa is a jumping spider.-Name:The epitheton paradoxa is based on the unusual body form, compared with other Sobasina species.-Appearance:...
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Fiji
• Sobasina platypoda
  Sobasina platypoda
  Sobasina platypoda is a jumping spider.-Appearance:In contrast to other Sobasina species, in this one both sexes are quite similar. In males, however, the first legs are longer, in females the fourth. S. platypoda could at first be confused with Efate raptor.-Distribution:S...
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Fiji
• Sobasina scutata Wanless, 1978 — Bismarck Archipel
• Sobasina solomonensis Wanless, 1978 — Solomon Islands
• Sobasina sylvatica Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 — Malaysia
• Sobasina tanna Wanless, 1978 — New Hebrides
  New Hebrides
  New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
  
  
• Sobasina yapensis
  Sobasina yapensis
  Sobasina yapensis is a species of jumping spider.-References: : Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. Journal of Arachnology 26: 149-189....
  
  Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 — Caroline Islands

Further reading

(1998): Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. Journal of Arachnology 26(2): 149-189. PDF - Key to species of Sobasina on p171.