Biology:Dolophones

Short description: Genus of spiders

Dolophones
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Dolophones Walckenaer, 1837
Type species
D. notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824)
Species
17, see text

Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains seventeen species:

• Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia
• Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria)
• Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
• Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
• Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
• Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.)
• Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
• Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia
• Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
• Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q531044 entry