Devade

Devade
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Devade Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
D. indistincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Species
10, see text
Synonyms[1]
Pseudauximus Denis, 1955[2] Strinatinella Denis, 1957[2]

Devade is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.[3] Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1983,[4] then to the Dictynidae in 1989.[5]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains ten species:[1]

• Devade dubia Caporiacco, 1934 – Karakorum
• Devade indistincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (type) – Mediterranean
• Devade kazakhstanica Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan
• Devade lehtineni Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan
• Devade libanica (Denis, 1955) – Lebanon
• Devade miranda Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
• Devade mongolica Esyunin & Marusik, 2001 – Mongolia
• Devade naderii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran
• Devade pusilla Simon, 1911 – Algeria
• Devade tenella (Tyschchenko, 1965) – Ukraine to China, Iran

References

1. "Gen. Devade Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 228.
3. Simon, E. (1884). "Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 9: 321–327.
4. Brignoli, P. M. (1983). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 495.
5. Marusik, Y. M. (1989), "[New data on the fauna and synonymy of the USSR spiders (Arachnida, Aranei)]", in Lange, A. B. (ed.), Fauna i Ekologiy Paukov i Skorpionov: Arakhnologicheskii Sbornik. Akademia Nauk SSSR, Moscow, p. 49