Diaphorocellus is a genus of African palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[2]
| Diaphorocellus | |
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| Diaphorocellus isalo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Palpimanidae |
| Genus: | Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. biplagiatus Simon, 1893
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| Species | |
Species edit
As of March 2020[update], the genus contains six species, found in Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa, and Namibia:[1][3]
- Diaphorocellus albooculatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Diaphorocellus biplagiatus Simon, 1893 (type) – South Africa
- Diaphorocellus helveolus (Simon, 1910) – Botswana
- Diaphorocellus isalo Zonstein & Marusik, 2020 – Madagascar
- Diaphorocellus jocquei Zonstein & Marusik, 2020 – Madagascar
- Diaphorocellus rufus (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Simon, Eugène (1893). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ^ Zonstein, Sergei L.; Marusik, Yuri M. (2020). "Two new species of Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893 from Madagascar (Araneae, Palpimanidae)". African Invertebrates. 61 (1): 1–15. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.61.47048. ISSN 2305-2562.
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