Ethobuella

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Ethobuella

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|image_caption=E. tuonops, adult female

|authority=Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937

|type_species=E. tuonops

|type_species_authority=Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision={{Specieslist

|E. hespera|Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA

|E. tuonops|Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937 – USA, Canada}}

}}

Ethobuella is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1937.{{cite journal|last1=Chamberlin|first1=R. V.|last2=Ivie|first2=W.|year=1937|title=New spiders of the family Agelenidae from western North America.|journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America|pages=211–230|volume=30|issue=2|doi=10.1093/aesa/30.2.211}} {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only two species: E. hespera and E. tuonops.{{cite journal|title=Gen. Ethobuella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1937|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1029|doi=10.24436/2}} Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was elevated to genus and moved to the dwarf sheet spiders in 1967,{{cite journal|last=Lehtinen|first=P. T.|year=1967|title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha|journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici|volume=4|pages=225–230}} then moved to the Cybaeidae in 2017.{{cite journal|last=Wheeler|first=W. C.|display-authors=etal|year=2017|title=The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling|journal=Cladistics|volume=33|issue=6|page=606|doi=10.1111/cla.12182|s2cid=35535038}}