Demogenes is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Demogenes Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. lugens (Thorell, 1881)
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Species
editAs of August 2020[update] it contains five species, found on Vanuatu, in Papua New Guinea, and on the Andaman Islands:[1]
- Demogenes andamanensis (Tikader, 1980) – India (Andaman Is.)
- Demogenes conivulvus (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea
- Demogenes heterophthalmus (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
- Demogenes lugens (Thorell, 1881) (type) – New Guinea
- Demogenes simplicibulbis (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Demogenes Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 151.
- ^ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Further reading
edit- Balogh, J. I. (1936). "Neue Spinnen aus Neu-Guinea". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 113: 237–244.
- Lehtinen, P. T. (2004), "Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions", in Logunov, D. V. (ed.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St
- Tikader, B. K. (1980). "Thomisidae (Crab-spiders)". Fauna India. 1: 1–247.
- Chrysanthus, P. (1964). "Spiders from south New Guinea VI". Nova Guinea, Zoology. 28: 87–104.