Demadiana

Demadiana
Demadiana complicata in Great Sandy National Park, Queensland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Arkyidae
Genus:	Demadiana Strand, 1929 [1]
Type species
Dema simplex (Karsch, 1878) [1]
Species
6, see text
Synonyms [1]
DemaKarsch, 1878

Demadiana is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Arkyidae, first described by Embrik Strand in 1929. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains six species: ^{[1] [3]}

• Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Demadiana cerula (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (Queensland)
• Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
• Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Demadiana simplex (Karsch, 1878) – Southern Australia

References

1. "Gen. Demadiana Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog . Version 25.5. Bern, Switzerland: Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 25 February 2025.
2. Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.
3. Framenau, Volker W.; Scharff, Nikolaj; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). "Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae: Araneidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 24 (2). CSIRO Publishing: 139–171. doi:10.1071/IS10005.