title: Pharta
text: # Pharta
  
  Pharta is a genus of crab spiders, family Thomisidae, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2022, it contains ten Asian species:
  
  * Pharta bimaculata Thorell, 1891 – Malaysia, Singapore
  * Pharta brevipalpus (Simon, 1903) – China, Vietnam, Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
  * Pharta gongshan (Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006) – China
  * Pharta indica Sen, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2012 – India
  * Pharta koponeni Benjamin, 2014 – Thailand
  * Pharta lingxiufengica (Liu, 2022) – China
  * Pharta nigra (Tang, Griswold & Peng, 2009) – Myanmar
  * Pharta sudmannorum Benjamin, 2014 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  * Pharta tangi Wang, Mi & Peng, 2016 – China
  * Pharta tengchong (Tang, Griswold & Yin, 2009) – China
  