title: Dolophones
text: # Dolophones
  
  Dolophones is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species:
  
  * Dolophones bituberculata Lamb, 1911 – Australia (Queensland)
  * Dolophones clypeata (L. Koch, 1871) – Indonesia (Moluccas), Australia
  * Dolophones conifera (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  * Dolophones elfordi Dunn & Dunn, 1946 – Australia (Victoria)
  * Dolophones intricata Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
  * Dolophones macleayi (Bradley, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
  * Dolophones mammeata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  * Dolophones maxima Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
  * Dolophones nasalis (Butler, 1876) – Australia (Queensland)
  * Dolophones notacantha (Quoy & Gaimarg, 1824) – Australia (New South Wales)
  * Dolophones peltata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (mainland, Lord Howe Is.)
  * Dolophones pilosa (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia
  * Dolophones simpla (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
  * Dolophones testudinea (L. Koch, 1871) – Australia, New Caledonia
  * Dolophones thomisoides Rainbow, 1915 – Australia (South Australia)
  * Dolophones tuberculata (Keyserling, 1886) – Australia (New South Wales)
  * Dolophones turrigera (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  