Zimirina
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Zimirina
| authority = Dalmas, 1919
| type_species = Z. penicillata
| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1893)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 15, see text
}}
Zimirina is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919.{{cite book| last=Dalmas| first=R. de| year=1919| title=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=279–340}} It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,{{cite journal| last=Azevedo| first=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| doi-access=free}} but was returned to Prodidominae in 2022.
Species
{{as of|2022|08}} it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and on Saint Helena:{{cite web| title=Gen. Zimirina Dalmas, 1919| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2467| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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
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