Diolenius

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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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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.

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