Diolenius

Genus of spiders

Diolenius
Male Diolenius phrynoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Diolenius
Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
D. phrynoides
(Walckenaer, 1837)
Species

16, see text

Diolenius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2]

Species

As of June 2019[update] it contains sixteen species, found only in Indonesian New Guinea (provinces of Papua and West Papua), Papua New Guinea and on the Moluccas:[1]

  • Diolenius albopiceus Hogg, 1915 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius amplectens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius angustipes Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006Indonesia (Biak Is.)
  • Diolenius armatissimus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
  • Diolenius bicinctus Simon, 1884 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
  • Diolenius decorus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius infulatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
  • Diolenius insignitus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
  • Diolenius lineatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius lugubris Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
  • Diolenius paradoxus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius phrynoides (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – Indonesia (Ambon, New Guinea)
  • Diolenius redimiculatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius sarmiensis Gardzińska & Patoleta, 2013 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius varicus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
  • Diolenius virgatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Diolenius Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 109–242.

Further reading

  • Gardzińska, J.; Zabka, M. (2006). "A revision of the spider genus Diolenius Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Annls Zool. Warsz. 56: 387–433. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-21.
Taxon identifiers
Diolenius


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