Diores (spider) explained

Diores is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was described by Eugène Simon in 1893.^[1], it contains sixty African species.

Species

, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:

• Diores annetteae Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores anomalus Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
• Diores auricula Tucker, 1920 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Diores bifurcatus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores bivattatus Simon, 1893 (type) – South Africa
• Diores bouilloni Benoit, 1965 – Congo
• Diores brevis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya
• Diores capensis Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores chelinda Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores cognatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
• Diores damara Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores decipiens Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores delesserti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Diores delicatulus Lawrence, 1936 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
• Diores dowsetti Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores druryi Tucker, 1920 – Namibia
• Diores femoralis Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores filomenae Jocqué, 2003 – Comoros
• Diores geraerti Jocqué, 1990 – Cameroon, Congo
• Diores godfreyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Diores griswoldorum Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores immaculatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores initialis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Diores jonesi Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores kenyae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores leleupi Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores lemaireae Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores lesserti Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Diores magicus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – Zimbabwe
• Diores malaissei Jocqué, 1990 – Congo
• Diores milloti Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
• Diores miombo Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores monospinus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores murphyorum Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Diores naivashae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores namibia Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores patellaris Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores pauper Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores poweri Tucker, 1920 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Diores radulifer Simon, 1910 – South Africa
• Diores rectus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi, South Africa
• Diores recurvatus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores russelli Jocqué, 1990 – Botswana
• Diores salisburyensis Tucker, 1920 – Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia
• Diores seiugatus Jocqué, 1986 – Comoros
• Diores sequax Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores setosus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores silvestris Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores similis Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 2015 – Tanzania
• Diores simoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
• Diores simplicior Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores spinulosus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores strandi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Rwanda, Congo
• Diores tavetae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores termitophagus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – South Africa
• Diores triangulifer Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa
• Diores triarmatus Lessert, 1929 – Congo
• Diores univittatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores youngai Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa

Notes and References

1. , p. 318