Dirksia Explained

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.[1] Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967,[2] then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.[3] it contains only two species: D. cinctipes and D. pyrenaea.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Chamberlin. R. V.. Ivie. W.. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders.. Bulletin of the University of Utah. 1–117. 32. 13.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 35535038.
  4. Gen. Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-07. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.

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