Diores (spider)

Diores
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus:
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
D. bivattatus
(Simon, 1893)
Diversity[1]
60 species

Diores is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was described by Eugène Simon in 1893.[2] As of 2024, it contains sixty African species.[1]

Species

As of November 2024, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

  • Diores annetteae Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores anomalus Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
  • Diores auricula Tucker, 1920 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • Diores bifurcatus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
  • Diores bivattatus Simon, 1893 (type) – South Africa
  • Diores bouilloni Benoit, 1965 – Congo
  • Diores brevis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya
  • Diores capensis Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
  • Diores chelinda Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores cognatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
  • Diores damara Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
  • Diores decipiens Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores delesserti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Diores delicatulus Lawrence, 1936 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
  • Diores dowsetti Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores druryi Tucker, 1920 – Namibia
  • Diores femoralis Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores filomenae Jocqué, 2003 – Comoros
  • Diores geraerti Jocqué, 1990 – Cameroon, Congo
  • Diores godfreyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
  • Diores griswoldorum Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
  • Diores immaculatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  • Diores initialis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Diores jonesi Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
  • Diores kenyae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
  • Diores kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  • Diores leleupi Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores lemaireae Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores lesserti Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Diores magicus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – Zimbabwe
  • Diores malaissei Jocqué, 1990 – Congo
  • Diores milloti Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
  • Diores miombo Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores monospinus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores murphyorum Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Diores naivashae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
  • Diores namibia Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
  • Diores patellaris Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores pauper Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores poweri Tucker, 1920 – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Diores radulifer Simon, 1910 – South Africa
  • Diores rectus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi, South Africa
  • Diores recurvatus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores russelli Jocqué, 1990 – Botswana
  • Diores salisburyensis Tucker, 1920 – Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia
  • Diores seiugatus Jocqué, 1986 – Comoros
  • Diores sequax Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores setosus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
  • Diores silvestris Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores similis Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 2015 – Tanzania
  • Diores simoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
  • Diores simplicior Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
  • Diores spinulosus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
  • Diores strandi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Rwanda, Congo
  • Diores tavetae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
  • Diores termitophagus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – South Africa
  • Diores triangulifer Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa
  • Diores triarmatus Lessert, 1929 – Congo
  • Diores univittatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
  • Diores youngai Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Gen. Diores Simon, 1893", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-18
  2. ^ Simon, Eugène Louis (1893), Histoire naturelle des araignées, vol. 1 (2nd ed.), Paris: Roret, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973, p. 318