{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Demogenes | authority = Simon, 1895<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''D. lugens'' | type_species_authority = (Thorell, 1881) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 5, see text | synonyms = *''Senoculifer'' <small>Balogh, 1936</small><ref name=Leht2016>{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=2016| title=Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae)| journal=Indian Journal of Arachnology| volume=5| page=151}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Demogenes''''' is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.<ref name=Simo1895>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1895| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|08}} it contains five species, found on Vanuatu, in Papua New Guinea, and on the Andaman Islands:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Demogenes Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-09-27| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3612| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Demogenes andamanensis'' <small>(Tikader, 1980)</small> – India (Andaman Is.) *''Demogenes conivulvus'' <small>(Balogh, 1936)</small> – New Guinea *''Demogenes heterophthalmus'' <small>(Berland, 1938)</small> – Vanuatu *''Demogenes lugens'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> (type) – New Guinea *''Demogenes simplicibulbis'' <small>(Balogh, 1936)</small> – New Guinea
==See also== * List of Thomisidae species
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Balogh| first=J. I.| year=1936| title=Neue Spinnen aus Neu-Guinea| journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger| pages=237–244| volume=113}} *{{citation| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=2004| contribution=Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions| editor-last1=Logunov| editor-first1=D. V.| title=European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St}} *{{cite journal| last=Tikader| first=B. K.| year=1980| title=Thomisidae (Crab-spiders)| journal=Fauna India| pages=1–247| volume=1}} *{{cite journal| last=Chrysanthus| first=P.|author-link=Pater Chrysanthus| year=1964| title=Spiders from south New Guinea VI| journal=Nova Guinea, Zoology| pages=87–104| volume=28}}
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Category:Thomisidae genera Category:Spiders of Oceania Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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