Biology:Demadiana

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Demadiana
Demadiana by Ethan Yeoman (2).jpg
Demadiana sp. photographed at Great Sandy National Park in Queensland
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Arkyidae
Genus: Demadiana
Strand, 1929[1]
Type species
D. simplex
(Karsch, 1878)[1]
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Dema Karsch, 1878

Demadiana is a genus of Australia n araneomorph spiders in the family Arkyidae, first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains six species:[1][3]

  • Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Demadiana cerula (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
  • Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
  • Demadiana simplex (Karsch, 1878) – Southern Australia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gen. Demadiana Strand, 1929". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/308. Retrieved 2019-05-13. 
  2. Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes.". Acta Universitatis Latviensis 20: 1–29. 
  3. Framenau, Volker W.; Scharff, Nikolaj; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). "Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae: Araneidae)". Invertebrate Systematics (CSIRO Publishing) 24 (2): 139-171. doi:10.1071/IS10005. 

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