''Diolenius'' is a

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jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...

that was first described by

Tamerlan Thorell Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...

in 1870.

Species

it contains sixteen species, found only in Indonesian New Guinea (provinces of Papua and West Papua),

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

and on the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West Melanesi ...

: *'' Diolenius albopiceus'' Hogg, 1915 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius amplectens'' Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius angustipes'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 –

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

(Biak Is.) *'' Diolenius armatissimus'' Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (

), New Guinea *'' Diolenius bicinctus''

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, 1884 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea *'' Diolenius decorus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius infulatus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (

New Britain New Britain () is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi Island, Umboi the Dampie ...

) *'' Diolenius insignitus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – Indonesia (Moluccas) *'' Diolenius lineatus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius lugubris'' Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain) *'' Diolenius paradoxus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius phrynoides'' (Walckenaer, 1837) (

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) – Indonesia (Ambon, New Guinea) *'' Diolenius redimiculatus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius sarmiensis'' Gardzińska & Patoleta, 2013 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius varicus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea *'' Diolenius virgatus'' Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea

Species

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