# Biton (arachnid)

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

## Species

As of October 2022, 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