World Spider Catalog

Arkyidae L. Koch, 1872

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B. Arkyinae (genera Arkys Walckenaer, 1837 and Demadiana Strand, 1929) elevated to family rank from Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 243.

In synonymy:

Dema Karsch, 1878 = Demadiana Strand, 1929 (Strand, 1929: 18, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Dema Karsch, 1878 -- see Demadiana Strand, 1929 - in Strand, 1929

Gen. Demadiana Strand, 1929 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03969

N.B.: replacement name for Dema Karsch, 1878c: 801 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04880], preoccupied in Coleoptera by Gistel, 1848; transferred from the Araneidae to the Arkyidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244; removed from the synonymy of Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 by Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 152 (contra Simon, 1895a: 880).

Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043399

Demadiana carrai Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 155, f. 10A, 11A-B (Dm) Original description

Demadiana cerula (Simon, 1908) | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016880

Paraplectanoides cerula Simon, 1908d: 428 (Df) Original description

Paraplectanoides caerulea Bonnet, 1958: 3333 (invalid emendation)

Demadiana cerula Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 156, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-D, 4A-D, 5A-D, 10C-D, 12A-D, 13A-D (Dm, f, T from Paraplectanoides)

Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043400

Demadiana complicata Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 159, f. 10B, 14A-B (Dm) Original description

Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 | | Australia (South Australia, Tasmania) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043401

Demadiana diabolus Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 160, f. 15A-B, 16A-D (Dmf) Original description

Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010 | | Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043402

Demadiana milledgei Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 163, f. 15C-D, 17A-D (Dmf) Original description

Demadiana simplex (Karsch, 1878) | | Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015786

Dema simplex Karsch, 1878c: 801 (Df) Original description

Demadiana simplex Strand, 1929: 18 (generic replacement name)

Cyrtarachne simplex Roewer, 1942a: 897

Demadiana simplex Framenau, Scharff & Harvey, 2010: 153, f. 8A-B, 9A-E (Dm, f, T from Cyrtarachne)