Diolenius (Latin) is a genus of araneomorphic spiders from the subfamily Agoriinae in the family of racehorse spiders ( Salticidae ). A relative is Chalcolecta [1] . Almost all species (13 out of 15) of the genus are common in Papua New Guinea; of these 13 species, four, in addition to Papua New Guinea, were also found on the Moluccas, o. New Britain and Fr. Ambon, and two of the 15 species are found only in English. Biak Islands ( Diolenius angustipes ) and the Moluccas ( Diolenius insignitus ).
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 Diolenius phrynoides | ||||||||||||
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| Diolenius Thorell , 1870 |
Types
- Diolenius albopiceus Hogg, 1915 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius amplectens Thorell, 1881 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius angustipes Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Biak Islands
- Diolenius armatissimus Thorell, 1881 - Moluccas
- Diolenius bicinctus Simon, 1884 - Moluccas, Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius decorus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius infulatus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea, New Britain
- Diolenius insignitus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Moluccas
- Diolenius lineatus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius lugubris Thorell, 1881 - Papua New Guinea, New Britain
- Diolenius paradoxus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius phrynoides (Walckenaer, 1837) - Ambon , Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius redimiculatus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius varicus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
- Diolenius virgatus Gardzinska & Zabka, 2006 - Papua New Guinea
Notes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 283
Links
- Gardzińska, J. & Zabka, M. (2006): A revision of the spider genus Diolenius Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annls zool. Warsz. 56 : 387-433. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog , version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History .