Devade Explained

Devade is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.^[1] Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1983,^[2] then to the Dictynidae in 1989.

Species

it contains ten species:^[3]

• Devade dubia Caporiacco, 1934 – Karakorum
• Devade indistincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (type) – Mediterranean
• Devade kazakhstanica Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan
• Devade lehtineni Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan
• Devade libanica (Denis, 1955) – Lebanon
• Devade miranda Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
• Devade mongolica Esyunin & Marusik, 2001 – Mongolia
• Devade naderii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran
• Devade pusilla Simon, 1911 – Algeria
• Devade tenella (Tyschchenko, 1965) – Ukraine to China, Iran

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1884. Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie.. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 321–327. 9.
2. Book: Brignoli, P. M.. 1983. A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. 495.
3. Gen. Devade Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.