Diplura (spider)

Diplura is a genus of South American curtain web spiders that was first described by C. L. Koch in 1850. It is found in South America and Cuba belonging to the subfamily Diplurinae. They possess a lyra on their prolateral maxillae. Diplura species can be distinguished from Trechona sp. by the number of setae on this lyra. They differ from Harmonicon sp. by the leg formula (1423 in Harmonicon, rather than 4123 in other genera of the subfamily) and the shape of the lyra bristles.

Species
it contains eighteen species:
 * Diplura annectens (Bertkau, 1880) – Brazil
 * Diplura argentina (Canals, 1931) – Argentina
 * Diplura catharinensis (Mello-Leitão, 1927) – Brazil
 * Diplura erlandi (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
 * Diplura garbei (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
 * Diplura garleppi (Simon, 1892) – Bolivia
 * Diplura lineata (Lucas, 1857) – Brazil
 * Diplura macrura (C. L. Koch, 1841) (type) – Brazil
 * Diplura mapinguari Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
 * Diplura nigra (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
 * Diplura paraguayensis (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1940) – Paraguay, Argentina
 * Diplura parallela (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil
 * Diplura petrunkevitchi (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
 * Diplura riveti (Simon, 1903) – Ecuador
 * Diplura rodrigoi Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018 – Brazil
 * Diplura sanguinea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Brazil
 * Diplura studiosa (Mello-Leitão, 1920) – Brazil
 * Diplura taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1923) – Brazil