Diphya

Diphya is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by H. Nicolet in 1849.[2] D. tanasevitchi and D. albulum were transferred from Lophomma in 2007.[3]

Diphya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Diphya
Nicolet, 1849[1]
Type species
D. macrophthalma
Nicolet, 1849
Species

15, see text

Species

As of October 2019 it contains fifteen species, found in Asia, Africa, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil:[1]

  • Diphya albula (Paik, 1983) – Korea
  • Diphya bicolor Vellard, 1926 – Brazil
  • Diphya limbata Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina
  • Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849 (type) – Chile
  • Diphya okumae Tanikawa, 1995 – China, Korea, Japan
  • Diphya pumila Simon, 1889 – Madagascar
  • Diphya qianica Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
  • Diphya rugosa Tullgren, 1902 – Chile
  • Diphya simoni Kauri, 1950 – South Africa
  • Diphya songi Wu & Yang, 2010 – China
  • Diphya spinifera Tullgren, 1902 – Chile
  • Diphya taiwanica Tanikawa, 1995 – Taiwan
  • Diphya tanasevitchi (Zhang, Zhang & Yu, 2003) – China
  • Diphya tanikawai Marusik, 2017 – South Africa
  • Diphya wulingensis Yu, Zhang & Omelko, 2014 – China, Russia (Far East)

In synonymy:

  • D. pallida Tullgren, 1902 = Diphya limbata Simon, 1896

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Diphya Nicolet, 1849". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. Nicolet, H. (1849), "Aracnidos", in Gay, C. (ed.), Historia física y política de Chile
  3. Marusik, Y. M.; Gnelitsa, V. A.; Koponen, S. (2007). "A survey of Holarctic Linyphiidae (Aranei). 4. A review of the erigonine genus Lophomma Menge, 1868". Arthropoda Selecta. 15: 153–171.


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