Iberina Explained

Iberina is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1881.^[1]

Species

it contains six species:^[2]

• Iberina candida (Simon, 1875) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel
• Iberina difficilis (Harm, 1966) – France, Italy, Central Europe, Romania, Bulgaria^[3]
• Iberina ljovuschkini Pichka, 1965 – Russia (Caucasus)
• Iberina mazarredoi Simon, 1881 (type) – Spain, France
• Iberina microphthalma (Snazell & Duffey, 1980) – Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Rep., Hungary
• Iberina montana (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Turkey

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1881. Arachnides nouveaux ou peu connus des provinces basques.. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. 127–132. 10.
2. Gen. Iberina Simon, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-07. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Naumova . Maria . Blagoev . Gergin . Deltshev . Christo . June 2021 . Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae) . Zootaxa . 4984. 1 . 228–257 . 6 June 2024.