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Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.^[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:^[1]

Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland)
Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia
Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria)
Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales)
Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.)
Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia
Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

1 2 "Gen. Dolophones Walckenaer, 1837". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
↑ Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Vol. 3. Paris. pp. 382–384. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095.

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