Cybaeidae Explained

Cybaeidae is a family of spiders first described by Nathan Banks in 1892.^[1] The diving bell spider or water spider Argyroneta aquatica was previously included in this family, but is now in the family Dictynidae.^[2]

Genera

See main article: List of Cybaeidae species., the World Spider Catalog accepts the following extant genera:^[3]

• Allocybaeina Bennett, 2020
• Blabomma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 — United States, Korea
• Calymmaria Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 — United States, Canada, Mexico
• Cedicoides Charitonov, 1946 — Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
• Cedicus Simon, 1875 — Asia
• Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870 — Asia, Europe, North America
• Cryphoecina Deltshev, 1997 — Montenegro
• Cybaeina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1932 — United States
• Cybaeota Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 — United States, Canada
• Cybaeozyga Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 — United States
• Cybaeus L. Koch, 1868 — Asia, North America, Europe, Peru
• Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 — United States, France
• Ethobuella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 — United States, Canada
• Neocryphoeca Roth, 1970 — United States
• Paracedicus Fet, 1993 — Asia
• Symposia Simon, 1898 — Venezuela, Colombia
• Tuberta Simon, 1884 — Azerbaijan, Italy
• Vagellia Simon, 1899 — Indonesia
• Willisus Roth, 1981 — United States
• Yorima Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 — United States, Cuba

A fossil genus is also placed in this family:^[4]

• †Vectaraneus Selden, 2003 (Isle of Wight)

See also

• List of Cybaeidae species

Notes and References

1. Banks. N.. 1892. A classification of North American spiders. The Canadian Entomologist. 24. 4. 88–97. 10.4039/Ent2488-4.
2. Wheeler . Ward C. . Coddington . Jonathan A. . Crowley . Louise M. . Dimitrov . Dimitar . Goloboff . Pablo A. . Griswold . Charles E. . Hormiga . Gustavo . Prendini . Lorenzo . Ramírez . Martín J. . Sierwald . Petra . Almeida-Silva . Lina . Alvarez-Padilla . Fernando . Arnedo . Miquel A. . Benavides Silva . Ligia R. . Benjamin . Suresh P. . Bond . Jason E. . Grismado . Cristian J. . Hasan . Emile . Hedin . Marshal . Izquierdo . Matías A. . Labarque . Facundo M. . Ledford . Joel . Lopardo . Lara . Maddison . Wayne P. . Miller . Jeremy A. . Piacentini . Luis N. . Platnick . Norman I. . Polotow . Daniele . Silva-Dávila . Diana . Scharff . Nikolaj . Szűts . Tamás . Ubick . Darrell . Vink . Cor J. . Wood . Hannah M. . Zhang . Junxia . 2016 . The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling . Cladistics . 33 . 6 . 574–616 . 10.1111/cla.12182 . 34724759 . 35535038 . amp . free .
3. Web site: Family: Cybaeidae Banks, 1892. World Spider Catalog. 2020-12-21. Natural History Museum Bern.
4. Selden . Paul A. . Eocene Spiders from the Isle of Wight With Preserved Respiratory Structures . Palaeontology . July 2001 . 44 . 4 . 695–729 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00199 .