Diaea

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Diaea
Diaea dorsata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Thomisidae Genus: Diaea
Diversity
78 species
Species
D. dorsata D. livens  many more, see text

Diaea is a spider genus of the family Thomisidae (crab spiders).

[edit] Distribution

While most species occur in Africa, Asia and the Australian region, only two species are found in the New World, D. seminola in the USA and D. spinosa in Colombia. In addition, D. livens occurs both in the USA and Central Europe. The only other species found in Europe is D. dorsata, which has a palearctic distribution.

[edit] Species

D. adusta (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland D. albicincta Pavesi, 1883 — Congo, Ethiopia, East Africa D. albolimbata L. Koch, 1875 — New Zealand D. ambara (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand D. bengalensis Biswas & Mazumder, 1981 — India D. bipunctata Rainbow, 1902 — New Hebrides D. blanda L. Koch, 1875 — Australia D. caecutiens L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland D. carangali Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines D. circumlita L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland, New South Wales D. cruentata (L. Koch, 1874) — New South Wales, Victoria D. decempunctata Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea D. delata Karsch, 1880 — West Africa, Angola D. dimidiata (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland D. doleschalli Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea D. dorsata (Fabricius, 1777) — Palearctic D. ergandros Evans, 1995 — New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania D. evanida (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland D. giltayi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea D. graphica Simon, 1882 — Yemen D. gyoja Ono, 1985 — Japan D. haematodactyla L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland D. implicata Jézéquel, 1966 — Ivory Coast D. inornata (L. Koch, 1876) — New South Wales D. insecta L. Koch, 1875 — Australia D. insignis Thorell, 1877 — Sulawesi D. jucunda Thorell, 1881 — Queensland D. limbata Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea D. livens Simon, 1876 — USA, Central Europe to Azerbaijan D. longisetosa Roewer, 1961 — Senegal D. megagyna Evans, 1995 — Queensland, New South Wales D. mikhailovi Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2004 — China D. mollis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland D. multimaculata Rainbow, 1904 — Western Australia D. multopunctata L. Koch, 1874 — Queensland, New South Wales D. mutabilis Kulczynski, 1901 — Ethiopia D. nakajimai Ono, 1993 — Madagascar D. ocellata Rainbow, 1898 — New Guinea D. olivacea L. Koch, 1875 — Western Australia

D. papuana Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea D. pilula (L. Koch, 1867) — Eastern Australia D. placata O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 — Sri Lanka D. plumbea L. Koch, 1875 — New South Wales D. pougneti Simon, 1885 — India D. praetexta (L. Koch, 1865) — Samoa D. prasina L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland, New South Wales D. proclivis Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea D. pulleinei Rainbow, 1915 — South Australia D. puncta Karsch, 1884 — Africa D. punctata L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales D. punctipes L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland D. rohani Fage, 1923 — Angola D. rosea L. Koch, 1875 — New South Wales D. rubropunctata Rainbow, 1920 — Lord Howe Islands D. rufoannulata Simon, 1880 — New Caledonia D. semilutea Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea D. seminola Gertsch, 1939 — USA D. septempunctata L. Koch, 1874 — New Guinea, Tonga D. shirleyi Hogg, 1922 — Vietnam D. socialis Main, 1988 — Western Australia D. sphaeroides (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand D. spinosa Keyserling, 1880 — Colombia D. sticta Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea D. subdola O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Russia, India, Pakistan to Japan D. suspiciosa O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Central Asia, Mongolia, China D. tadtadtinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines D. taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya D. tenuis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales D. terrena Dyal, 1935 — Pakistan D. tongatabuensis Strand, 1913 — Polynesia D. tristania (Rainbow, 1900) — New South Wales D. tumefacta L. Koch, 1874 — Queensland, New South Wales D. variabilis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales D. varians Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea D. velata L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland D. viridipes Strand, 1909 — South Africa D. xanthogaster (L. Koch, 1875) — New South Wales D. zonura Thorell, 1892 — Java, Sumatra

[edit] References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.