Zimirina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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)
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Species | |
15, see text |
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]
As of August 2022[update] it contains fifteen species, found in Africa, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and on Saint Helena:[1]