Diaea

Diaea is a genus of crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Most species are found in specific locations except for D. livens, which occurs in the United States and D. dorsata, which has a palearctic distribution. Adults are 5 mm to 7 mm and tend to hide in and around vegetation, especially flowers, where their color allows them to blend in to their surroundings.

Species
it contains forty-six species: • Diaea albicincta Pavesi, 1883 — Congo, Ethiopia, East Africa

• Diaea albolimbata L. Koch, 1875 — New Zealand

• Diaea ambara (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand

• Diaea bengalensis Biswas & Mazumder, 1981 — India

• Diaea bipunctata Rainbow, 1902 — Vanuatu

• Diaea carangali Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines

• Diaea delata Karsch, 1880 — West Africa, Angola

• Diaea doleschalli Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea

• Diaea dorsata (Fabricius, 1777) — Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Japan

• Diaea giltayi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea

• Diaea graphica Simon, 1882 — Yemen

• Diaea gyoja Ono, 1985 — Japan

• Diaea implicata Jézéquel, 1966 — Ivory Coast

• Diaea insignis Thorell, 1877 — Indonesia (Sulawesi)

• Diaea limbata Kulczyński, 1911 — New Guinea

• Diaea livens Simon, 1876 — Southern and Central Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran. Introduced to USA

• Diaea longisetosa Roewer, 1961 — Senegal

• Diaea mikhailovi Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2004 — China

• Diaea mutabilis Kulczyński, 1901 — Ethiopia

• Diaea nakajimai Ono, 1993 — Madagascar

• Diaea ocellata Rainbow, 1898 — New Guinea

• Diaea osmanii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 — Iran

• Diaea papuana Kulczyński, 1911 — New Guinea

• Diaea placata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 — Sri Lanka

• Diaea pougneti Simon, 1885 — India

• Diaea proclivis Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea

• Diaea puncta Karsch, 1884 — Africa

• Diaea rohani Fage, 1923 — Angola

• Diaea rufoannulata Simon, 1880 — New Caledonia

• Diaea semilutea Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea

• Diaea seminola Gertsch, 1939 — USA

• Diaea septempunctata L. Koch, 1874 — New Guinea, Tonga

• Diaea shirleyi Hogg, 1922 — Vietnam

• Diaea simplex Xu, Han & Li, 2008 — China, Hong Kong

• Diaea sphaeroides (Urquhart, 1885) — New Zealand

• Diaea spiniformis (Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006) — China

• Diaea spinosa Keyserling, 1880 — Colombia

• Diaea subdola O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 — Russia (Far East), India, Pakistan to Japan

• Diaea suspiciosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 — Central Asia, Mongolia, China

• Diaea tadtadtinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines

• Diaea taibeli Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya

• Diaea terrena Dyal, 1935 — Pakistan

• Diaea tianpingensis (Liu, Zhang & Chen, 2021) — China

• Diaea tongatabuensis Strand, 1913 — Polynesia

• Diaea viridipes Strand, 1909 — South Africa

• Diaea zonura Thorell, 1892 — Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)