Diolenius

Diolenius
Male Diolenius phrynoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Diolenius Thorell, 18701
Type species
D. phrynoides (Walckenaer, 1837)
Species
16, see text

Diolenius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.²

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found only in Indonesian New Guinea (provinces of Papua and West Papua), Papua New Guinea and on the Moluccas:¹

• Diolenius albopiceus Hogg, 1915 – New Guinea
• Diolenius amplectens Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea
• Diolenius angustipes Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – Indonesia (Biak Is.)
• Diolenius armatissimus Thorell, 1881 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Diolenius bicinctus Simon, 1884 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Diolenius decorus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea
• Diolenius infulatus Gardzińska & Zabka, 2006 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• 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) (type) – 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