Misionella

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Misionella

|authority=Ramírez & Grismado, 1997

|type_species=M. mendensis

|type_species_authority=(Mello-Leitão, 1920)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=5, see text

}}

Misionella is a genus of South American crevice weavers that was first described by M. J. Ramírez & C. J. Grismado in 1997.{{cite journal|last1=Ramírez|first1=M. J.|last2=Grismado|first2=C. J.|year=1997|title=A review of the spider family Filistatidae in Argentina (Arachnida, Araneae), with a cladistic reanalysis of filistatid genera.|journal=Entomologica Scandinavica|pages=319–349|volume=28|issue=3|doi=10.1163/187631297X00114}} In 2005 a spider fossil found in 15- to 20-million-year-old Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic was described as Misionella didicostae.{{cite journal|last=Penney|first=David|year=2005|title=First fossil Filistatidae: a new species of Misionella in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic|journal=Journal of Arachnology|volume=33|issue=1|pages=93–100|doi=10.1636/H03-38|s2cid=56012330|url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v33_n1/arac-033-01-0093.pdf}} A second specimen was discussed soon thereafter.{{cite journal|last=Penney|first=David|year=2005|title=Fossil blood droplets in Miocene Dominican amber yield clues to speed and direction of resin secretion|journal=Palaeontology|volume=48|issue=5|pages=925–927|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00491.x}}