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| Dirksia | |
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| female C. cintipes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cybaeidae |
| Genus: | Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. cinctipes (Banks, 1896) | |
| Species | |
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Dirksia is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae. It was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942 as a subgenus of Ethobuella.[2] Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967,[3] then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.[4]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes two species:[1]
- Dirksia cinctipes (Banks, 1896) – Alaska, Canada, United States (type species)
- Dirksia pyrenaea (Simon, 1898) – France
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
- ↑ Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.
