Diploglena is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Caponiidae, first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904.[2]
| Diploglena | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Caponiidae |
| Genus: | Diploglena Purcell, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. capensis Purcell, 1904
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| Species | |
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6, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1]
- Diploglena arida Haddad, 2015 – South Africa
- Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904 (type) – South Africa
- Diploglena dippenaarae Haddad, 2015 – South Africa
- Diploglena karooica Haddad, 2015 – Namibia, South Africa
- Diploglena major Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
- Diploglena proxila Haddad, 2015 – South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Diploglena Purcell, 1904". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ^ Purcell, W. F. (1904). "Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 15: 115–173. doi:10.1080/21560382.1904.9626437.