Piabuna Explained

Piabuna is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1933.^[1] Originally added to the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,^[2] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.^[3]

Species

it contains six species:^[4]

• Piabuna brevispina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Piabuna longispina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Piabuna nanna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 (type) – USA
• Piabuna pallida Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Piabuna reclusa Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
• Piabuna xerophila Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA

External links

• Piabuna at BugGuide

Notes and References

1. Chamberlin. R. V.. Ivie. W.. 1933. Spiders of the Raft River Mountains of Utah.. Bulletin of the University of Utah. 1–79. 23. 4.
2. Bosselaers. J.. Jocqué. R.. 2002. Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae. Zoologica Scripta. 31. 3. 265. 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. 83947168.
3. Ramírez. M. J.. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390. 343. 10.1206/821.1. 11336/18066. 86146467. free.
4. Gen. Piabuna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-22. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.