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Yorima

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

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Yorima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cybaeidae
Genus: Yorima
Chamberlin & Ivie, 19421
Type species
Y. sequoiae
(Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937)
Species

6, see text

Yorima is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.2 Originally placed in the funnel weaver family, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967,3 and to the Cybaeidae in 2017.4

Species

As of May 2019, it contains six species in the United States and Cuba:1

  • 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
References

References

  1. "Gen. Yorima Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
  3. 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.
  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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