Demogenes

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

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Demogenes
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]
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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

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