Devade is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.[3] Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1983,[4] then to the Dictynidae in 1989.[5]

Devade
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Devade
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
D. indistincta
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Pseudauximus Denis, 1955[2]
  • Strinatinella Denis, 1957[2]

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains ten species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Devade Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ^ a b Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 228.
  3. ^ Simon, E. (1884). "Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 9: 321–327.
  4. ^ Brignoli, P. M. (1983). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 495.
  5. ^ Marusik, Y. M. (1989), "[New data on the fauna and synonymy of the USSR spiders (Arachnida, Aranei)]", in Lange, A. B. (ed.), Fauna i Ekologiy Paukov i Skorpionov: Arakhnologicheskii Sbornik. Akademia Nauk SSSR, Moscow, p. 49