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Diaea is a spider genus of the family Thomisidae (crab spiders).

Distribution

While most species are found in Africa

Africa

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, Asia

Asia

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and the Australia

Australia

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n region, only two species are found in the Americas

Americas

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, D. seminola in the USA and D. spinosa in Colombia

Colombia

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. In addition, D. livens occurs both in the USA and Central Europe

Central Europe

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. The only other species found in Europe

Europe

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is D. dorsata, which has a palearctic

Palearctic

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distribution.

Species

D. adusta (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland
D. albicincta Pavesi, 1883 — Congo, Ethiopia, East Africa
D. albolimbata L. Koch, 1875 — New Zealand
D. ambara (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand
D. bengalensis Biswas & Mazumder, 1981 — India
D. bipunctata Rainbow
William Joseph Rainbow
William Joseph Rainbow was an entomologist and arachnologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.-Life:...

, 1902 — New Hebrides
D. blanda L. Koch, 1875 — Australia
D. caecutiens L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland
D. carangali Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
D. circumlita L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland, New South Wales
D. cruentata (L. Koch, 1874) — New South Wales, Victoria
D. decempunctata Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
D. delata Karsch, 1880 — West Africa, Angola
D. dimidiata (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland
D. doleschalli Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
D. dorsata
Diaea dorsata
Diaea dorsata is one of the smaller crab spiders. Females can grow up to 6 mm, males up to 4 mm. Prosoma and legs are green, the opisthosoma is yellowish with a brown mark. Like Misumena vatia, this spider can change its color to fit its surrounding; however, this takes several days.D....

(Fabricius, 1777) — Palearctic
D. ergandros Evans, 1995 — New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania
D. evanida
Diaea evanida
Diaea evanida is a species of arachnid in the Thomisidae family. It is found in Queensland, Australia.thumb|left|Diaea evanida hides in the leaves of a [[lemon myrtle]] at [[Acacia Ridge]], Brisbane...

(L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland
D. giltayi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea
D. graphica Simon, 1882 — Yemen
D. gyoja Ono, 1985 — Japan
D. haematodactyla L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland
D. implicata Jézéquel, 1966 — Ivory Coast
D. inornata (L. Koch, 1876) — New South Wales
D. insecta L. Koch, 1875 — Australia
D. insignis Thorell, 1877 — Sulawesi
D. jucunda Thorell, 1881 — Queensland
D. limbata Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea
D. livens Simon, 1876 — USA, Central Europe to Azerbaijan
D. longisetosa Roewer, 1961 — Senegal
D. megagyna Evans, 1995 — Queensland, New South Wales
D. mikhailovi Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2004 — China
D. mollis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland
D. multimaculata Rainbow, 1904 — Western Australia
D. multopunctata L. Koch, 1874 — Queensland, New South Wales
D. mutabilis Kulczynski, 1901 — Ethiopia
D. nakajimai Ono, 1993 — Madagascar
D. ocellata Rainbow, 1898 — New Guinea
D. olivacea L. Koch, 1875 — Western Australia

D. papuana Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea

D. pilula (L. Koch, 1867) — Eastern Australia

D. placata O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 — Sri Lanka

D. plumbea L. Koch, 1875 — New South Wales

D. pougneti Simon, 1885 — India

D. praetexta (L. Koch, 1865) — Samoa

D. prasina L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland, New South Wales

D. proclivis Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea

D. pulleinei Rainbow, 1915 — South Australia

D. puncta Karsch, 1884 — Africa

D. punctata L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales

D. punctipes L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland

D. rohani Fage, 1923 — Angola

D. rosea L. Koch, 1875 — New South Wales

D. rubropunctata Rainbow, 1920 — Lord Howe Islands

D. rufoannulata Simon, 1880 — New Caledonia

D. semilutea Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea

D. seminola Gertsch, 1939 — USA

D. septempunctata L. Koch, 1874 — New Guinea, Tonga

D. shirleyi Hogg, 1922 — Vietnam

D. socialis Main, 1988 — Western Australia

D. sphaeroides (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand

D. spinosa Keyserling, 1880 — Colombia

D. sticta Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea

D. subdola O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Russia, India, Pakistan to Japan

D. suspiciosa O. P.-Cambridge, 1885 — Central Asia, Mongolia, China

D. tadtadtinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines

D. taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya

D. tenuis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales

D. terrena Dyal, 1935 — Pakistan

D. tongatabuensis Strand, 1913 — Polynesia

D. tristania (Rainbow, 1900) — New South Wales

D. tumefacta L. Koch, 1874 — Queensland, New South Wales

D. variabilis L. Koch, 1875 — Queensland, New South Wales

D. varians Kulczynski, 1911 — New Guinea

D. velata L. Koch, 1876 — Queensland

D. viridipes Strand, 1909 — South Africa

D. xanthogaster (L. Koch, 1875) — New South Wales

D. zonura Thorell, 1892 — Java, Sumatra

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