Dirksia

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Dirksia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cybaeidae
Genus: Dirksia
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 [1]
Type species
D. cinctipes
(Banks, 1896)
Species

Dirksia is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942 as a subgenus of Ethobuella . [2] Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967, [3] then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017. [4] As of May 2019 it contains only two species: D. cinctipes and D. pyrenaea . [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
  3. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 230.
  4. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID   35535038.