Blabomma Explained

Blabomma is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1937.^[1] Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967, and to the Cybaeidae in 2017.^[2]

Species

it contains eleven species:^[3]

• Blabomma californicum (Simon, 1895) (type) – USA
• Blabomma flavipes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma foxi Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma guttatum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma hexops Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma lahondae (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) – USA
• Blabomma oregonense Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma sanctum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
• Blabomma sylvicola (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) – USA
• Blabomma uenoi Paik & Yaginuma, 1969 – Korea
• Blabomma yosemitense Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA

External links

• Blabomma at BugGuide

Notes and References

1. Chamberlin. R. V.. Ivie. W.. 1937. New spiders of the family Agelenidae from western North America.. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 211–230. 30. 2. 10.1093/aesa/30.2.211.
2. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 606. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. free.
3. Gen. Blabomma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.