Demogenes

Demogenes is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3]

Demogenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Demogenes
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
D. lugens
(Thorell, 1881)
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Senoculifer Balogh, 1936[2]

Species

As of August 2020 it contains five species, found on Vanuatu, in Papua New Guinea, and on the Andaman Islands:[1]

  • Demogenes andamanensis (Tikader, 1980) – India (Andaman Is.)
  • Demogenes conivulvus (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea
  • Demogenes heterophthalmus (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
  • Demogenes lugens (Thorell, 1881) (type) – New Guinea
  • Demogenes simplicibulbis (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Demogenes Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 151.
  3. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

Further reading
  • Balogh, J. I. (1936). "Neue Spinnen aus Neu-Guinea". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 113: 237–244.
  • Lehtinen, P. T. (2004), "Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions", in Logunov, D. V. (ed.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St
  • Tikader, B. K. (1980). "Thomisidae (Crab-spiders)". Fauna India. 1: 1–247.
  • Chrysanthus, P. (1964). "Spiders from south New Guinea VI". Nova Guinea, Zoology. 28: 87–104.


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