Sidymella is a genus of spider in the family Thomisidae, found in South America, Australia and New Zealand.[1] It was originally named Sidyma, but this was later found to have been used already for a genus of moths.
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| Sidymella rubrosignata juvenile on a bromeliad at Chatswood West, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Sidymella Strand, 1942[1] |
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Taxonomy
editThe genus was first erected by Eugène Simon in 1895 under the name Sidyma, with the type species Sidyma lucida. However, it was later discovered that there was a moth genus Sidyma, named in 1856, so the genus name was preoccupied. The replacement name Sidymella was provided by Strand in 1942.[2][3]
Species
editAs of June 2026[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 21 species:[1]
- Sidymella angularis (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
- Sidymella angulata (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
- Sidymella ayahuma Díaz-Guevara & Machado, 2026 – Ecuador
- Sidymella benhami (Hogg, 1910) – New Zealand (Stewart Is.)
- Sidymella bicuspidata (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland)
- Sidymella excavata (Machado & Guzati, 2019) – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina
- Sidymella furcillata (Keyserling, 1880) – Brazil, Argentina
- Sidymella hirsuta (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland)
- Sidymella jordanensis (Soares, 1944) – Brazil
- Sidymella kochi (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Sidymella kolpogaster (Lise, 1973) – Brazil
- Sidymella lampei (Strand, 1913) – Australia (Victoria)
- Sidymella longipes (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland)
- Sidymella longispina (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Sidymella lucida (Keyserling, 1880) (type species) – Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
- Sidymella malefica Díaz-Guevara & Machado, 2026 – Ecuador
- Sidymella multispinulosa (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Brazil
- Sidymella nigripes (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
- Sidymella rubrosignata (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Sidymella sigillata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Uruguay
- Sidymella trapezia (L. Koch, 1874) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Sidymella Strand, 1942", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2026-06-23
- ↑ "Taxon details Sidymella lucida (Keyserling, 1880)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2026-06-23
- ↑ Strand, E. (1942), "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. X", Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, 11: 386–402
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