Diolenius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2]

Diolenius
Male Diolenius phrynoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Diolenius
Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
D. phrynoides
(Walckenaer, 1837)
Species

16, see text

Species edit

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found only in Indonesian New Guinea (provinces of Papua and West Papua), Papua New Guinea and on the Moluccas:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Diolenius Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 109–242.

Further reading edit