Diolenius Explained

Diolenius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.^[1]

Species

it contains sixteen species, found only in Indonesian New Guinea (provinces of Papua and West Papua), Papua New Guinea and on the Moluccas:^[2]

• Diolenius albopiceus Hogg, 1915 – New Guinea
• Diolenius amplectens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Diolenius angustipes Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – Indonesia (Biak Is.)
• Diolenius armatissimus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Diolenius bicinctus Simon, 1884 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Diolenius decorus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius infulatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Diolenius insignitus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – Indonesia (Moluccas)
• Diolenius lineatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius lugubris Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Diolenius paradoxus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius phrynoides (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – Indonesia (Ambon, New Guinea)
• Diolenius redimiculatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius sarmiensis Gardzińska & Patoleta, 2013 – New Guinea
• Diolenius varicus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius virgatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea

Further reading

• Gardzińska. J.. Zabka. M.. 2006. A revision of the spider genus Diolenius Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annls Zool. Warsz.. 56. 387–433. https://web.archive.org/web/20071021205715/http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/Diolenius.pdf. dead. 2007-10-21.

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1870. On European spiders. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 109–242. 7. 3. Tamerlan Thorell.
2. Gen. Diolenius Thorell, 1870. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-07. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.