
Devade is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Argyronetidae. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884. Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1983, then to the Dictynidae in 1989. It was included in the re-erected family Argyronetidae in 2025.
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Devade is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Argyronetidae. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884. Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1983, then to the Dictynidae in 1989. It was included in the re-erected family Argyronetidae in 2025.
==Species== , this genus includes fourteen species: Devade dubia Caporiacco, 1934 – Pakistan (Karakorum) Devade indistincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Mediterranean (type species) Devade kazakhstanica Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan Devade lehtineni Esyunin & Efimik, 2000 – Kazakhstan Devade libanica (Denis, 1955) – Lebanon Devade longa Wang, Yang, Marusik & Zhang, 2025 – China Devade miniatura Zamani & Marusik, 2025 – Iran Devade miranda Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan Devade mongolica Esyunin & Marusik, 2001 – Mongolia, China Devade naderii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran Devade pulla Wang, Yang, Marusik & Zhang, 2025 – China Devade pusilla Simon, 1911 – Algeria Devade qiemuensis (Hu & Wu, 1989) – China Devade tenella (Tystshenko, 1965) – Cyprus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
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