Diaea

Diaea is a genus of crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.[2] Most species are found in specific locations except for D. livens, which occurs both in the United States and D. dorsata, which has a palearctic distribution.[1] Adults are 5 millimetres (0.20 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) and tend to hide in and around vegetation, especially flowers, where their color allows them to blend in to their surroundings.[3]

Diaea
D. dorsata
D. evanida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Diaea
Thorell, 1869[1]
Type species
D. dorsata (Fabricius, 1777)
Species

44, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains forty-four species:[1]

  • Diaea albicincta Pavesi, 1883 — Congo, Ethiopia, East Africa
  • Diaea albolimbata L. Koch, 1875 — New Zealand
  • Diaea ambara (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand
  • Diaea bengalensis Biswas & Mazumder, 1981 — India
  • Diaea bipunctata Rainbow, 1902 — Vanuatu
  • Diaea carangali Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Diaea delata Karsch, 1880 — West Africa, Angola
  • Diaea doleschalli Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
  • Diaea dorsata (Fabricius, 1777) — Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Japan
  • Diaea giltayi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea
  • Diaea graphica Simon, 1882 — Yemen
  • Diaea gyoja Ono, 1985 — Japan
  • Diaea implicata Jézéquel, 1966 — Ivory Coast
  • Diaea insignis Thorell, 1877 — Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Diaea limbata Kulczyński, 1911 — New Guinea
  • Diaea livens Simon, 1876 — Southern and Central Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran. Introduced to USA
  • Diaea longisetosa Roewer, 1961 — Senegal
  • Diaea mikhailovi Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2004 — China
  • Diaea mutabilis Kulczyński, 1901 — Ethiopia
  • Diaea nakajimai Ono, 1993 — Madagascar
  • Diaea ocellata Rainbow, 1898 — New Guinea
  • Diaea osmanii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 — Iran
  • Diaea papuana Kulczyński, 1911 — New Guinea
  • Diaea placata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 — Sri Lanka
  • Diaea pougneti Simon, 1885 — India
  • Diaea proclivis Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea
  • Diaea puncta Karsch, 1884 — Africa
  • Diaea rohani Fage, 1923 — Angola
  • Diaea rufoannulata Simon, 1880 — New Caledonia
  • Diaea semilutea Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea
  • Diaea seminola Gertsch, 1939 — USA
  • Diaea septempunctata L. Koch, 1874 — New Guinea, Tonga
  • Diaea shirleyi Hogg, 1922 — Vietnam
  • Diaea simplex Xu, Han & Li, 2008 — China, Hong Kong
  • Diaea sphaeroides (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand
  • Diaea spinosa Keyserling, 1880 — Colombia
  • Diaea subdola O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 — Russia (Far East), India, Pakistan to Japan
  • Diaea suspiciosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 — Central Asia, Mongolia, China
  • Diaea tadtadtinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Diaea taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
  • Diaea terrena Dyal, 1935 — Pakistan
  • Diaea tongatabuensis Strand, 1913 — Polynesia
  • Diaea viridipes Strand, 1909 — South Africa
  • Diaea zonura Thorell, 1892 — Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)

References
  1. "Gen. Diaea Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  2. Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.
  3. "Crab spiders: Family Thomisidae". Spiders of Australia. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
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