Yorima Explained

Yorima is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.^[1] Originally placed in the funnel weaver family, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967,^[2] and to the Cybaeidae in 2017.^[3]

Species

, it contains six species in the United States and Cuba:^[4]

• Yorima albida Roth, 1956 – USA
• Yorima angelica Roth, 1956 – USA
• Yorima antillana (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
• Yorima flava (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) – USA
• Yorima sequoiae (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) (type) – USA
• Yorima subflava Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA

External links

• Yorima at BugGuide

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. 275.
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. free.
4. Web site: Gen. Yorima Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.