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Diores
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Zodariidae
Genus:	Diores Simon, 1893
Type species
D. bivattatus (Simon, 1893)
Diversity
60 species

Diores is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was described by Eugène Simon in 1893. As of 2024, it contains sixty African species.

Species

As of November 2024, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:

• Diores annetteae Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores anomalus Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
• Diores auricula Tucker, 1920 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Diores bifurcatus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores bivattatus Simon, 1893 (type) – South Africa
• Diores bouilloni Benoit, 1965 – Congo
• Diores brevis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya
• Diores capensis Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores chelinda Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores cognatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
• Diores damara Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores decipiens Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores delesserti Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Diores delicatulus Lawrence, 1936 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
• Diores dowsetti Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores druryi Tucker, 1920 – Namibia
• Diores femoralis Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores filomenae Jocqué, 2003 – Comoros
• Diores geraerti Jocqué, 1990 – Cameroon, Congo
• Diores godfreyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Diores griswoldorum Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores immaculatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores initialis Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Diores jonesi Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores kenyae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores leleupi Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores lemaireae Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores lesserti Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Diores magicus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – Zimbabwe
• Diores malaissei Jocqué, 1990 – Congo
• Diores milloti Jocqué, 1990 – Madagascar
• Diores miombo Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores monospinus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores murphyorum Jocqué, 1990 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Diores naivashae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores namibia Jocqué, 1990 – Namibia
• Diores patellaris Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores pauper Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores poweri Tucker, 1920 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Diores radulifer Simon, 1910 – South Africa
• Diores rectus Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi, South Africa
• Diores recurvatus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores russelli Jocqué, 1990 – Botswana
• Diores salisburyensis Tucker, 1920 – Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia
• Diores seiugatus Jocqué, 1986 – Comoros
• Diores sequax Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores setosus Tucker, 1920 – South Africa
• Diores silvestris Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores similis Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 2015 – Tanzania
• Diores simoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 – South Africa
• Diores simplicior Jocqué, 1990 – Malawi
• Diores spinulosus Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa
• Diores strandi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Rwanda, Congo
• Diores tavetae Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Diores termitophagus Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1992 – South Africa
• Diores triangulifer Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa
• Diores triarmatus Lessert, 1929 – Congo
• Diores univittatus Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Diores youngai Jocqué, 1990 – South Africa

References

1. ^ "Gen. Diores Simon, 1893", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-18
2. Simon, Eugène Louis (1893), Histoire naturelle des araignées, vol. 1 (2nd ed.), Paris: Roret, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973, p. 318

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