Zimirina
Genus of spiders
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Zimirina is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919.[2] It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,[3] but was returned to Prodidominae in 2022.[1]
| Zimirina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Prodidomidae |
| Genus: | Zimirina Dalmas, 1919[1] |
| Type species | |
| Z. penicillata (Simon, 1893) | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
Species
As of August 2022[update] 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