Diphya

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Metainae
Genus: Diphya
Species: D. albula – D. bicolor – D. foordi – D. guiyang – D. leroyorum – D. limbata – D. macrophthalma – D. okumae – D. pumila – D. qianica – D. rugosa – D. simoni – D. songi – D. spinifera – D. taiwanica – D. tanasevitchi – D. vanderwaltae – D. weimiani – D. wesolowskae – D. wulingensis
Name

Diphya Nicolet, 1849

Type species: Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849
References
Primary references

Nicolet, H. 1849. Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3: 319–543. BHL Open access Reference page.

Additional references

Omelko, M.M., Marusik, Yu.M. & Lyle, R. 2020. A survey of Diphya Nicolet, 1849 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa 4899(1): 259–279. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.14. Paywall. Reference page.
Zhang, J-S., Zhang, Q., Long, F-Y., Yu, H. & Yi, Y. 2022. Two new speicies of Diphya Nicolet, 1849 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from Southwest China. Zookeys 1124ː 131–145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1124.86828 Open access Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Diphya

Diphya is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by H. Nicolet in 1849.[2] D. tanasevitchi and D. albulum were transferred from Lophomma in 2007.[3]
Species

As of March 2021 it contains eighteen species, found in Asia, Africa, and South America:[1]

Diphya albula (Paik, 1983) – Korea
Diphya bicolor Vellard, 1926 – Brazil
Diphya foordi Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 — South Africa
Diphya leroyorum Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 — South Africa
Diphya limbata Simon, 1896 – Chile, Argentina
Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849 (type) – Chile
Diphya okumae Tanikawa, 1995 – China, Korea, Japan
Diphya pumila Simon, 1889 – Madagascar
Diphya qianica Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 – China
Diphya rugosa Tullgren, 1902 – Chile
Diphya simoni Kauri, 1950 – South Africa
Diphya songi Wu & Yang, 2010 – China
Diphya spinifera Tullgren, 1902 – Chile
Diphya taiwanica Tanikawa, 1995 – Taiwan
Diphya tanasevitchi (Zhang, Zhang & Yu, 2003) – China
Diphya vanderwaltae Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 — South Africa
Diphya wesolowskae Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 — South Africa
Diphya wulingensis Yu, Zhang & Omelko, 2014 – China, Russia] (Far East)

In synonymy:

D. bilineata Tullgren, 1901 = Diphya limbata Simon, 1896
D. brevipes Nicolet, 1849 = Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849
D. crassipes Nicolet, 1849 = Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849
D. longipes Nicolet, 1849 = Diphya macrophthalma Nicolet, 1849
D. pallida Tullgren, 1902 = Diphya limbata Simon, 1896
D. tanikawai Marusik, 2017 = Diphya simoni Kauri, 1950