Zimirina

Zimirina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Zimirina Dalmas, 1919 [1]
Type species
Z. penicillata (Simon, 1893)
Species
15, see text

Zimirina is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919. ^[2] It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018, ^[3] but was returned to Prodidominae in 2022. ^[1]

Species

As of August 2022 ^[update] it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and on Saint Helena: ^[1]

• Zimirina brevipes Pérez & Blasco, 1986 – Spain, Italy (Sardinia)
• Zimirina cineris Cooke, 1964 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina deserticola Dalmas, 1919 – Algeria
• Zimirina gomerae (Schmidt, 1981) – Canary Is.
• Zimirina grancanariensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina hirsuta Cooke, 1964 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina lepida (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira
• Zimirina moyaensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina nabavii Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina penicillata (Simon, 1893) (type) – Algeria
• Zimirina relegata Cooke, 1977 – St. Helena
• Zimirina spinicymbia Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Zimirina tenuidens Denis, 1956 – Morocco
• Zimirina transvaalica Dalmas, 1919 – South Africa
• Zimirina vastitatis Cooke, 1964 – Libya, Egypt

See also

• List of Prodidominae species

References

1. "Gen. Zimirina Dalmas, 1919". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Dalmas, R. de (1919). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. pp. 279–340.
3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi: 10.1111/cla.12226 .