Dolophones
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Dolophones
Walckenaer, 1837[1]
Type species
D. notacantha
(Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824)
Species

17, see text

Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species:[1]

  • Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia
  • Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  • Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria)
  • Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  • Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
  • Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.)
  • Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  • Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia
  • Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Dolophones Walckenaer, 1837". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Vol. 3. Paris. pp. 382–384. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095.


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