Demadiana

Demadiana
Demadiana sp. photographed at Great Sandy National Park in Queensland
Scientific 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

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

• Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Demadiana cerula (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (Queensland)
• Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
• Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Demadiana simplex (Karsch, 1878) – Southern Australia

References

1. "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.