Dipoena

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|the genus of spiders|the town in ancient Arcadia, Greece|Dipoena (Arcadia)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Dipoena malkini f.jpg

| image_caption = Dipoena malkini, female

| image2 = Dipoena nigra 1.jpg

| image2_caption = Dipoena nigra, female

| taxon = Dipoena

| authority = Thorell, 1869

| type_species = D. melanogaster

| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1837)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 162, see text

| synonyms =

  • Paoningia Schenkel, 1936{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| page=25}}
  • Stictoxena Simon, 1894
  • Umfila Keyserling, 1886

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Dipoena is a genus of tangle-web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1869| title=On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature| journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis| pages=1–108| volume=7| issue=3| author-link=Tamerlan_Thorell}}

Species

{{as of|2019|09}} it contains 162 species, found in Asia, Central America, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, on Vanuatu, and in Australia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Dipoena Thorell, 1869| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-10-27| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3475| doi=10.24436/2}}

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In synonymy:

  • D. barro Levi, 1963 = Dipoena anas Levi, 1963
  • D. copiosa Levi, 1953 = Dipoena cordiformis Keyserling, 1886
  • D. crassiventris Keyserling, 1886 = Dipoena nigra (Emerton, 1882)
  • D. inca Levi, 1963 = Dipoena tingo Levi, 1963
  • D. inornata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944, T from Euryopis) = Dipoena abdita Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
  • D. itu Levi, 1963 = Dipoena taeniatipes Keyserling, 1891
  • D. maculata Keyserling, 1891 = Dipoena pumicata (Keyserling, 1886)
  • D. matagrossensis Soares & Camargo, 1948 = Dipoena militaris Chickering, 1943
  • D. parvula Banks, 1901 = Dipoena nigra (Emerton, 1882)
  • D. procax (Simon, 1879) = Dipoena torva (Thorell, 1875)
  • D. roeweri Chickering, 1951 = Dipoena rubella (Keyserling, 1884)
  • D. schmidti Levi, 1963 = Dipoena banksi Chickering, 1943
  • D. sicki Levi, 1963 (T from Dipoenata) = Dipoena variabilis (Keyserling, 1886)
  • D. tibialis Banks, 1906 = Dipoena nigra (Emerton, 1882)

See also

References