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Demadiana

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Demadiana
Demadiana sp. photographed at Great Sandy National Park in Queensland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Arkyidae
Genus: Demadiana
Strand, 1929[1]
Type species
D. simplex
(Karsch, 1878)[1]
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Dema Karsch, 1878

Demadiana is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Arkyidae, first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.[2]

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains six species:[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Demadiana Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  2. ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.
  3. ^ 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.