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Blabomma

Blabomma is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1937. Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967, and to the Cybaeidae in 2017.

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Length
290 w
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Source
Blabomma
B. californicum, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cybaeidae
Genus: Blabomma
Chamberlin & Ivie, 19371
Type species
B. californicum
(Simon, 1895)
Species

11, see text

Synonyms1

Blabomma is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1937.3 Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967,2 and to the Cybaeidae in 2017.4

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eleven species:1

  • Blabomma californicum (Simon, 1895) (type) – USA
  • Blabomma flavipes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma foxi Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma guttatum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma hexops Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma lahondae (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) – USA
  • Blabomma oregonense Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma sanctum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
  • Blabomma sylvicola (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937) – USA
  • Blabomma uenoi Paik & Yaginuma, 1969 – Korea
  • Blabomma yosemitense Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA
References

References

  1. "Gen. Blabomma Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  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: 219–222.
  3. Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1937). "New spiders of the family Agelenidae from western North America". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 30 (2): 211–230. doi:10.1093/aesa/30.2.211.
  4. 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. PMID 34724759.
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