Demadiana
| Demadiana | |
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| Demadiana sp. photographed at Great Sandy National Park in Queensland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Arkyidae |
| Genus: | Demadiana Strand, 1929[1] |
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| D. simplex | |
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6, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Demadiana is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Arkyidae, first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1][3]
- Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Demadiana cerula (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (Queensland)
- Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
- Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Demadiana simplex (Karsch, 1878) – Southern Australia
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Gen. Demadiana Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.
- ^ Framenau, Volker W.; Scharff, Nikolaj; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). "Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae: Araneidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 24 (2). CSIRO Publishing: 139–171. doi:10.1071/IS10005.