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Demogenes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Demogenes Simon, 1895
Type species
D. lugens (Thorell, 1881)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms
Senoculifer Balogh, 1936

Demogenes is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.

Species

As of August 2020 it contains five species, found on Vanuatu, in Papua New Guinea, and on the Andaman Islands:

• Demogenes andamanensis (Tikader, 1980) – India (Andaman Is.)
• Demogenes conivulvus (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea
• Demogenes heterophthalmus (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
• Demogenes lugens (Thorell, 1881) (type) – New Guinea
• Demogenes simplicibulbis (Balogh, 1936) – New Guinea

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Demogenes Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 151.
3. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

Further reading

• Balogh, J. I. (1936). "Neue Spinnen aus Neu-Guinea". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 113: 237–244.
• Lehtinen, P. T. (2004), "Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions", in Logunov, D. V. (ed.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St
• Tikader, B. K. (1980). "Thomisidae (Crab-spiders)". Fauna India. 1: 1–247.
• Chrysanthus, P. (1964). "Spiders from south New Guinea VI". Nova Guinea, Zoology. 28: 87–104.

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