Demogenes

Demogenes is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3]

Demogenes
Scientific classification
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)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Senoculifer Balogh, 1936[2]

Species

As of August 2020 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

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. "Gen. Demogenes Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 151.
3. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

Further reading

• 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.