Dolophones

Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[2]

Dolophones
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Dolophones Walckenaer, 1837[1]
Type species
D. notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824)
Species
17, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species:[1]

• Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia
• Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria)
• Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
• Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
• Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.)
• Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia
• Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
• Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

References

1. "Gen. Dolophones Walckenaer, 1837". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
2. Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)