Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893

Zonstein, Sergei L. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2020, Two new species of Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893 from Madagascar (Araneae, Palpimanidae), African Invertebrates 61 (1), pp. 1-15 : 1

Genus Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893

Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893: 314; Platnick 1975: 5; Zonstein et al. 2016: 96.

Type species.

Diaphorocellus biplagiatus Simon, 1893, by monotypy.

Notes.

Diaphorocellus appears to be an exclusively Afrotropical chedimine genus that comprises six species: D. albooculatus Lawrence, 1927 (Namibia), D. biplagiatus Simon, 1893 (South Africa), D. helveolus (Simon, 1910) (Botswana), D. isalo sp. nov. (Madagascar), D. jocquei sp. nov. (Madagascar) and D. rufus (Tullgren, 1910) (Tanzania). Within the genus, the first three species have a bicoloured dorsal abdominal pattern (presenting a broad longitudinal pale stripe against a dark background, the pale stripe is usually separated into two by a wide dark bridge). These congeners differ from the remaining three species, which have a uniformly and finely spotted abdominal colouration. To date, only the type species, D. biplagiatus , has been redescribed in detail ( Zonstein et al. 2016).