Dirksia
Genus of spiders
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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]
| 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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Species
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
