Dipoena

Dipoena
Dipoena malkini, female
Dipoena nigra, female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Dipoena
Thorell, 1869
Type species
D. melanogaster
(C. L. Koch, 1837)
Species

162, see text

Synonyms

Dipoena is a genus of tangle-web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.

Species

As of September 2019 it contains 162 species, found in Asia, Central America, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, on Vanuatu, and in Australia:

In synonymy:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Dipoena Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
  2. 1 2 3 Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 25.
  3. ↑ Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.