Dolophones

Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Dolophones is referenced by 5 other articles, and connects out to Araneidae, Animalia and Araneae.

It sits within the topics Araneidae genera, Spiders of Australia and Taxa named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer.

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassArachnida
OrderAraneae
FamilyAraneidae

Observations recorded1,189

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 592
With media: 1
Family: Araneidae
Collections: MCZ, NMV, AM, QM
Recorded in: Australia

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Araneidae
Image: Dolophones sp. (14512417851).jpg

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taxon name: Dolophones
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Dolophones
Commons category: Dolophones
taxon author citation: Walckenaer, 1837
taxonomic type: Dolophones notacantha

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Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.

==Species== it contains seventeen species: Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland) Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria) Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia) Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland) Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria) Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland) Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales) Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.) Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales) Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia) Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales) Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

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