Zimirina

Zimirina is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919.[2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.[3]

Zimirina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Subfamily: Prodidominae
Genus: Zimirina
Dalmas, 1919[1]
Type species
Z. penicillata
(Simon, 1893)
Species

15, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and on Saint Helena:[1]

  • Zimirina brevipes Pérez & Blasco, 1986 – Spain, Italy (Sardinia)
  • Zimirina cineris Cooke, 1964 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina deserticola Dalmas, 1919 – Algeria
  • Zimirina gomerae (Schmidt, 1981) – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina grancanariensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina hirsuta Cooke, 1964 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina lepida (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira
  • Zimirina moyaensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina nabavii Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina penicillata (Simon, 1893) (type) – Algeria
  • Zimirina relegata Cooke, 1977 – St. Helena
  • Zimirina spinicymbia Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
  • Zimirina tenuidens Denis, 1956 – Morocco
  • Zimirina transvaalica Dalmas, 1919 – South Africa
  • Zimirina vastitatis Cooke, 1964 – Libya, Egypt

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Zimirina Dalmas, 1919". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Dalmas, R. de (1919). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. pp. 279–340.
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.


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